Quote Originally Posted by Alaltus View Post
He did say something along those lines but Ifrit is quite clearly in that picture in full or lesser form hes still there and if SE had plans for Summoners not be able to summon him they wouldnt have illustrated it. The only way i can see Summoners getting other summons besides lesser versions of primals at this point is if SE link Summoner's limit break with the free company felling primals system. Making ifrit etc more akin to Odin and Alexander in ffxi.
The Free Company Primals and SMNs should be completely unrelated. It would be silly otherwise, because then the SMNs limit break would only be 1 element (whichever is assigned to that server, since there's only 1 wandering Primal per server). And it would be silly to link 2 systems which shouldn't remotely be involved.

What summoners call would be related to the original Primal, but they will be slightly different. Most likely the only change would be size though. In XI the Avatar that was summoned and the one you fought were pretty much the same size. Or perhaps they'll just move different; like Garuda walking on the ground instead of levitating, for example.