Quote Originally Posted by Johners View Post
Asking Square Enix for a pet based job, even if it's a limited job, is just like asking them to add the Glamour Collection. They've clearly got no intention of actually investing into the game enough to resolve key underlying technical issues which is why existing jobs, full fat jobs you take into current content, had their pet interactions removed or minimised. If you want to play a class/job that lets you collect and control pets, Beast Master Hunter in World of Warcraft is ready and it's actually functional. More importantly you won't have to wait for Yoshi-P to issue seven apologies and either technical deep dives before they even attempt to fix the underlying problem.
I think one of the reasons why the current pet classes are so restricted is because there is such standardization across non-limited jobs and how much dps they're able to do in a rotation. By making BST a limited job, it opens up the field to a bunch of individual variations in gameplay (eg which beasts people tame and to what level they train them, etc). I don't know enough about the underlying technical issues in this game to really understand their full impact on gameplay.

It may be that it isn't worth their time, and that's fine. I think if it incorporates everything I outlined above, then it builds on existing systems and provides an entire parallel branch of gameplay - it might be worth it. There's an entire genre of game dedicated to creature capture that has a loyal (if niche) fanbase, which might could help FFXIV coax in some of that market share. But given the size of their current active playerbase, you're right that it might just be drops in the bucket.

I've tried playing WoW, it just doesn't do it for me, but I appreciate the suggestion.