What are your thoughts on 2.0's summoning system?

[Arcell]

As long as the summoner job with its own dynamic and versatile avatars comes out, I could care less about the one-use open world summons.

^^ This. The Free Company summons will be around for those who like to directly compete with others and have those bragging rights. I'm not going to put a ton of time or effort into obtaining them unless my Company really wants to.

One of the potential uses for a summon I came up with is that they might be used to take down HNMs that would be otherwise nearly impossible to defeat without them. Which means, everyone would compete with other groups to get the primal, spend a bunch of time doing stuff in order to summon it, and then use it to try to kill a HNM... While everyone else waits approximately two weeks for it to be used so they can get another chance. I don't really like this idea.

I really don't think it will be used for anything like this. This would actively exclude a large number of people from doing content. The point of creating content is to give us something to do, it's counterproductive to create something that only a small few can take part in.