Quote Originally Posted by XanderOlivieri View Post
As for PUP. I don't have an honest opinion on the class not being a FFXI player, but I heard the maintenance cost was high. With our current issues with making Gil and maintaining the economy, I wouldn't want a Gil sink class to come out and not be playable because you can't afford to keep up with the cost of the character.
The cost isn't so much the problem. The issue was more that the automaton was a terrible melee, physical ranged was decent and caster was close to broken due to the ADD design oversight. It had a unique aesthetic and I guess a different "feel" from other pet jobs like BST and SMN, but as Kitru said the job is not exactly iconic and is an FFXI-exclusive.

The devs eventually had to admit giving the automaton the bulk of the job's performance was a mistake (which had relegated PUP to be the lol job of lol jobs) and buffed the hell out of the PUP themselves. It wouldn't be hard to insert PUP-like job using that job's aesthetic, but I can guarantee it would be nowhere near what the people asking for PUP think it would. It may have a callback or two to XI's version, but it wouldn't be a job with a customizable pet.