Quote Originally Posted by Diavolo View Post
Well, the devs are damned if they do and damned if they don't. If they had full blown primals, people would bitch that they weren't sticking to lore and that they are totally messing up the whole notion that a tonne of crystals and lives are needed to summon them. And since they decided to go the lore-friendly route, now people bitch that they aren't impressive enough (despite the fact that you're only summoning the ESSENCE of the primal, not the primal itself). There really is no way for them to win.
Shouldn't they have thought of that when they where writing the story? Anyone that has any knowledge of FF series would know that Chocobos and the summons/summoner has become the key features people know of when you ask them about the Final Fantasy Series.

Or heck, the players got special "powah" against primals, they could have easily made a way for summoners to summon a de-powered Primal.