Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
Considering how terrible pet AI (especially pathing) tends to be in MMOs, I suspect they probably scrapped the idea even if they had ever considered it seriously. They've already pretty much eliminated pet function for ACN/SMN/SCH and haven't touched Chocobo Companions since HW.
With the improvement of the trust/duty support AI and the relatively static nature of terrain in most dungeons(not so much in open world but not as bad as other games with pet classes) they could pull it off if they wanted to.

I think the main couple of problems would be:

1) how to manage the pet in general. Do we get assigned a pet or do they let us catch em all per se.
2) how to manage damage between pet and player. Since the changes to the Arcanist route of classes it would be interesting to see how they balance this aspect.