Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
I just can't imagine the amount of work required to be cost-effective.
About this... Actually, the amount of work required to make this happen is mind-bogglingly tiny. The game can already tell when you're fishing normally or spearfishing, which is how it knows which set of fishing skills to activate. All they'd need to do is use some basic condition logic (in whatever form: if, switch, etc.) that checks which type of fishing you're doing based on that variable they already have somewhere and activate the appropriate fish-catching function. Then, they could tie this to a single button for catching both hooked fish and speared fish.

All in all, this would probably be a minute or two of work for any developer on the FFXIV team.