Akatsuki?

[Akujin]

They're looking to appease the masses and leave no one out. I understand the approach. Big Primals give the companies/linkshells to strive for. Smaller summons and Tamed creatures being class specific approaches, to give an indiviual idenity to things and then the chocobo buddy growing with you and then fighting alongside you, for the novelty effect of having your own personalized chocobo at your side. I like all of the ideas, I wasnt keen on playing SMN in XI, no mage class really got my interest. Whereas here, I've stuck primarily to BLM/THM as my main focus. So I may have to give SMN a try as well. But as I said, honestly as long as they can make something like Alexander, my personal favorite summon, into a truly epic, monstrous scale thing. I'll be happy, even if I cant have a miniture one follow me around lol

[Rydin]

They're looking to appease the masses and leave no one out. I understand the approach. Big Primals give the companies/linkshells to strive for. Smaller summons and Tamed creatures being class specific approaches, to give an indiviual idenity to things and then the chocobo buddy growing with you and then fighting alongside you, for the novelty effect of having your own personalized chocobo at your side. I like all of the ideas, I wasnt keen on playing SMN in XI, no mage class really got my interest. Whereas here, I've stuck primarily to BLM/THM as my main focus. So I may have to give SMN a try as well. But as I said, honestly as long as they can make something like Alexander, my personal favorite summon, into a truly epic, monstrous scale thing. I'll be happy, even if I cant have a miniture one follow me around lol

I do agree with the sentiment that it would be disappointing if you love the Summoner class/job but never used it to call on Bahamut or Titan
I definitely see where Yoshi-P is coming from too
Think about this... a summon can't take a long time because fights happen in real time.... but if the entire party is involved and the entire zone is affected by it, you can add some really incredible summon FX that you might not be able to get away with if just one person was summoning

For instance... If you had a summoner in your party and they summoned sometime like "Eden" from FFVIII, there is no way you could do a 3 minute cutscene for everyone to see
But... if an entire party is doing the summon... then maybe not 3 minutes... but a 15 second summon CS isn't out of the question