Quote Originally Posted by Carighan View Post
Plus history has shown that one way or another, MMORPGs will steadily neuter and/or remove their pet jobs as they age. I don't know exactly why (since it should not be the same for different MMOs), but it happens, so it seems to be some universal constant of MMORPG-design.

Which is why visually giving us those huge FF-style summons but mechanically making us do a lot of things and just showing the summon doing it ("us giving commands" kinda) would work so well.
I mean pets basically doubles the packets sent between th e player and server so I get why they'd be hard to optimize. Especially for a game with framework like ff14. I think shifting the pet job to a limited job was a good call because the old summoner/scholar pets had so much input lag and ability ghosting.