Why can't Summoner Egi's look like this?

[Wolf_Gang]

I was watching the new Extreme mode primals and noticed that they summon their own Egis. WTF!

They look far more cooler than what SMNs have. If those models are already in the game, why can't we have them? They could just make them smaller.

Even Yoshi made a quip in the last Live Letter:

"as for titan egi, lots of people called them potatoes so I think they got mad."

[Gucci_Gabbana]

No thanks. I don't want egis to block my screen as it used to be in ffxi.

[BlueMage]

No thanks. I don't want egis to block my screen as it used to be in ffxi.

How would it block your screen if it looked just like the primal but shrunk down to egi size like people suggest? Do the egis block your screen? People just hate the aesthetic design of the egis - they look like FF11 elementals.

[Zaiken]

What EGI look like right now...

Titan




It actually just a Popcorn.



Garuda



It's just really an anorexia bat.



Ifrit



It actually just a Fish.

[Parodine]

No thanks. I don't want egis to block my screen as it used to be in ffxi.

This is seriously the weakest argument to this kind of suggestion. As far out as we can freaking zoom and as easily as we can change camera angles in this game, it is nothing like FFXI in terms of potential to block your screen. What happens when a monster aggroes you from behind in a dungeon? You change up your angle to include both. It's not that difficult. Hell, Garuda stays as far back as she possibly can anyway.

I'd hate to think the reason SMN can't have pets with better details and slightly larger sizes is because of that reason. It's a pet class...I want it to focus on the pets. Ugh. But that's a soap-box for another day.

[Tupsi]

No thanks. I don't want egis to block my screen as it used to be in ffxi.

They hardly blocked your screen in XI unless you were tossing summoners at something for easy mode lol.



See? The person that took this picture..yep their view was COMPLETELY blocked. Yep.

[EmeraldSerenade]

-IMG-

Surrounded by naked bird-woman and Taru onlookers. I'm not sure if I'm jealous or sympathetic of Odin..

[Wolf_Gang]

No thanks. I don't want egis to block my screen as it used to be in ffxi.

They don't have to be big. They can remain the exact same size as they're now only with the detail shown above.

[Kincard]

They don't have to be big. They can remain the exact same size as they're now only with the detail shown above.

As much as I dislike the Egis, personally I think teeny tiny versions of the actual primals would look ridiculous.

If I was in charge I would've just given Summoner some non-primals that are also FF nostalgia bait to summon since they had to go and make different models anyway. Like they could've had you summon Salamander instead of Ifrit-Egi. Then they can give you a couple big summons to serve as the SMN LB and satisfy pretty much everyone, but that would've taken a lot more effort.

[Itachi]

No thanks. I don't want egis to block my screen as it used to be in ffxi.

stop playing ffxiv on a ... gameboy-sized screen? ^^