Quote Originally Posted by Hitokirinomad View Post
You read what you wanted to read in Enkidoh's statement. Enkidoh said that while the FFXI summons were graphically impressive, they didn't have the same attack power of the true summons, and that the FFXIV summons being small visually matches their relative power level. Your 4k damage at lvl 99 story notwithstanding, FFXI is so many years past FFXIV, that you really should to stop making the comparison.
If I re-read them and saw no mention of their graphical qualities, but instead how they were "admittedly potent but still not what they could be," then I'd say you're doing the same thing because all they said about them was that they were watered down and could have still been more powerful. Which I don't see because they're doing more damage than any player capabilities that I've seen so far. I also specifically mentioned that there has been several level caps raises and the like in XI which can skew everything, don't reply to me if it seems you've skipped over everything when simple comparisons are made. And comparisons are perfectly valid, XIV wouldn't exist if it couldn't take a lot of cues from XI, it helped to make it what it is so why everyone pretends it could have happened without it's predecessor I don't fathom.