As a new player that really likes this game ...

[akaneakki]

I feel the opposite. FFXIV SMN is the most summoner-like incarnation we've had since X.

I'm just going to sit back and asume, but gonna take a guess you never played FF11? FF12 wasn't so bad either, never a was a huge fan of the summon's in FF13 tbh, but I know some people might have liked it.
Anyways, SMN in 14 is dot machine and a nugget like Jybril said, you don't have an actuall Primal with you. FF9 was amazing when it comes to summon story and lore wise as well, I think it was better than FFX, even tho I did and still love FF10!
SMN feels far away from being a SMN in this game. The fact I also hated how the class system turns into job system and we all see how that turned out, they screwed it up. I'm not saying I hate FF14, I still play and like it, but there is so much less Final Fantasy in this game than previous ones.

Apparently you never played FFXI, Summoner was awesome. WoW was released 2 years AFTER FFXI. So who was copying whom? Personally I don't see much comparison between warlock and smn, but if there is, well ffxi did it first.

Again if people like wow so much and keep going on and on about how much better it is, why are they here?

I can't believe what you just said. You just made up some weird shit. FFXI summon was NOTHING like WoW or FF14 SMN. How can you go from FFXI actuall summons and interaction with the summon itself to a turd nugget doing shit on it's own? FFXIV came out after WoW by many years and we all know, that. I just had to type in the obvious since you don't get what I said.

FFXI came out before WoW yes, however, the summon system there was very very Final Fantasy summon compare to what we currently have in FF14. So yes FF14 did copy warlock's from WoW.

So you are basically admitting how your post makes no sense?
FFXI SMN is nothing like FFXIV or wow
FFXIV SMN = wow clone, so much so they gave it spells typically that is BLM to it.

Pretty much yeah.