http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3853958

"Wait for your squadron to return."

Anyone else kind of annoyed about this? I'm having Airship Exploration flashbacks all over again. You know, where they announce content that initially sounds reallllly cool, like "Wow! Airship Exploration?! And I'll be able to manually fly around with my FC mates and explore far off places and maybe even do airship fates and chase big flying monsters?"

Only now it's "Wow! Squadrons?! So I'll be able to go into low level dungeons without needing a queue or having to wait around if someone leaves mid-dungeon? Aweso-" Oh no wait, it's just another retainer system. Let me guess, the higher your squad member's levels, the better items you can get, right?

And yeah, at the bottom it says that sometime in the future they'd like to update it so you can take them into dungeons. But they also said a lot about Airship Exploration, and it's been over a year now with FC airships being close to worthless.

Here's a thought... why couldn't they just expand our current retainer system so that we can place the retainers we have (you know, the ones we've already spent time gearing and leveling and designing their looks) into squadrons and send them out in groups to fetch a bundle of items instead of one at a time? I mean, I have to imagine adding onto the current system we have in place would take less effort than designing a whole new system entirely (that essentially serves the same purpose). And with all that effort they saved, maybe they could have used it to actually let squadrons live up to their namesake and go into dungeons with us.