Blue Mage and Summoner responses worry me

[MrSmiley]

Q22: Currently, the summoner job is a DoT-focused job, but I want them to be more of a pet-focused job. Are there any plans to change the design of the summoner job?

A22: Controlling the pet would require a lot of player skill so it might be hard to find a good overall balance.

Q20: I love the blue mage job that appears in the FINAL FANTASY series. Will the blue mage job ever be implemented in FFXIV?

A20: I personally think the blue mage job is an interesting job because it requires learning an enemy’s ability and it would probably be a lot of fun to play if it implemented. However, it’s difficult to think about what role they will play in a party so it will require a lot of thinking if we do decide to implement the job in the future.

I was hoping the upcoming expansion and suck would allow them to expand a bit more on some classes or move away from the extremely rigid system they use now (all jobs must have a single role, the exact same amount of skills, etc). I'm not expecting it to go all XI on us, or even near that but I was hoping for...a bit more.
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These responses make me feel that the current rigid simplicity we have now, is there to stay forever and will be so on all future jobs/classes as well. Summoner can't be a bit more complicated to play by making the pet important, blue mage cant be flexible or fill multiple roles depending on skillset, it must have a single one.

I feel the system over time will start to wear thin, interesting or creative ideas ousted for simplicities sake. Even if we DID get a blue mage, it would have a handful of specific monster skills (one ever 5 levels) and a slew of generic class skills and likely wouldn't have the feel as a result. I feel they are throwing away a lot of opportunity.

Mind you we don't know exactly what is planned for the expansion yet and I may be surprised, but my initial feeling from these responses is it wont be anything major and everything will continue to sit on the same rigid path.

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TLDR; I feel not everything needs to be equally simple, but apparently they do


Edit again: If your gonna argue about summoner's particulars or ideas on them specifically, please do so here http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...e-also-Bard%29