Quote Originally Posted by Zantetsuken View Post
I think people misunderstand (due to translation possibly) what "Too easy to obtain" is referring to.

Yoshi is speaking of it in a global FF sense.

In virtually every single player FF games. Summons were rare and difficult to obtain by the general population of that WORLD.

Think back on any FF game (sans 11). Other than the party of heroes. How often did you see anyone else with summoning magic?

Goblez, and the residents of Mist in FFIV had it, Kefka could summon FFVI (using Magicite), Seymour and several others could in FFX.. We knew the residents of Replito in FFIII could use it.

Notice something?

I each respective FF world, the only NPCs who could use summoning magic fell into two categories: 1) Main Villains or 2) Small hidden communities dedicated exclusively to studying it. Bottom line, summoning magic was pretty rare to have for your average inhabitant of a FF world.

Now, of those... How many did you ever see summon Ifrit? How about Leviathan, or Shiva?

Not only was summoning magic rare, but the the iconic FF summons (Primals) were exclusive to one party in the world, the player's party.

When Yoshi-P is talking about Summoning magic being too common and everyone with their own Ifrit walking around he is speaking directly about FFXI.

His plan is to retain the uniqueness and power of the Iconic FF summons, by restricting them to one per world in FFXIV. And that fits well with the FF tradition.
Maybe I am misunderstanding you...but in nearly all the FF's party members could summon summons. Rydia, Yuna, in FF7 and 8 the whole PT, in FF12 you could summon it and become to summon. In FF6 you could summon stuff on any character also. The summons weren't that hard to obtain ^^; In FF12 though they were...haha the fights were a pain but a lot of fun!

I don't like the whole "one shot" anything either, that is kind of silly and takes the fun out of bosses and stuff. Is it really worth it to use in PVP too? It would be funny I guess lol but nothing that epic.

FFXI I think they did a good job, at first anyway. They really used to make you work for the avatars...there was only a very small amount of us summoners in 2003 - 2005. I wrote a guide on it back in the day at gamefaqs But then when they made it easier and everyone and their mom leveled it for the wyrms...yeah that is when it felt like it lost its novelty.

I really hope he does add summoner job...I know a lot of people are expecting it and if it does not come out I also will leave...I been waiting for it ._.