I guess it's time

[Ryel]

I cannot because all data from the beta forums is gone and was against the ToS to release information outside the beta to the public. Anyone who was active during the beta forums should know about it.

Can you please explain exactly which content you are referring to in regards they promised for Heavensward? I don't remember things like add-on's getting a specific date.

Yea....I will take job balancing as a priority over egi-glamour any day. They also explained why having a whole new summon pet is not a good idea unless they have something that can balance the other three. It is actually a good idea (for now) to not have something come in. Ultimately, I am willing to bet people care about the glamour more than adding all new modes to the SMN pet system.

I was around and i simply do not remember the wording of the post.

Add-on support got multiple release dates starting from like... 2.2? each time getting pushed back further until they stopped listing one altogether, I'll have to hunt for the comments. New Egi's were initially promised for Heavensward and never happened with their stance changing during the middle of 3.0 from new Egi's to Egi glamours.

Also as a former summoner main I can say that I personally would have preferred NEW summons over a glamour system as 2/3 of our current summons are almost entirely useless outside of niche situations, the job might as well not even be called summoner with how one dimensional it performs when compared to something like WoW's Warlock or XI's Summoner (though the latter had many balance issues). It's a topic that was beaten to death during the 2.xx era by many other posters until a large amount of the vocal SMN population most likely just got fed up with their complaints falling on deaf ears and either moved on or are waiting to see what happens.

I can't speak for them however.

You seem to take developer word as law which is the main folly many posters seem to do here as if this MMO exists in a vacuum (it doesn't), a large number of the complaints and comparisons to other games are made because many players have seen a quite a few of their suggestions actually put into action and working in similar circumstances and environments.

This even goes for the casual non-battle content.

Like can anyone explain why something like chocobo raising in XIV's gold saucer is straight up inferior to it's XI counterpart? I personally can't yet we have stuff like LoV which is all but dead in it's support instead.

How about fishing?

So yeah just because the developers explain why they feel a certain game system might not be interesting or may be hard to work with, doesn't mean that's actually the truth of the case.