Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
Again, their rationale for removing Kaiten was the same as for removing Power Surge from Dragoon: "Action Bloat". And they're right, it was action bloat.

The problems were that (A) virtually no SAMs complained about "action bloat", let alone from Kaiten (comments were focused instead on "button bloat"), (B) rather than revitalizing the tool to make it more interesting, they just removed it outright, and (C) was that they did nothing to address the (especially, trickle-down) effects removing it would have on gameplay.
The reality is: controller holds this game back. Simply as that. Everytime they want to give us something new (and they "need" to do it every expanion) they have to remove something else since controller has hit its button limit in HW. We wont get Kaiten back if at all until like 2-3 expansions when they rip another skill out of the kit to be replaced with something else.