What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

[jenova_9]

There is some controversy about them, mew. Wonder if the community will pressure the devs to add something that has them change into form that resembles the primal more.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/blog/post/510

Or perhaps the Primal Free Company system will make up for it. Some think the summons look like that because the higher graphics is too much to handle larger more detailed summons
as pets (kind of like how Diablo III can't support multiple followers, and 8 players like Diablo II can because of the more demanding graphics eating up RAM.)
However others argue that FFXIV ARR engine is fully capable of XI-like summons for FFXIV ARR Summoners (just like players don't need Egi versions of chocobos to use them in battle and follow them as pets), and some believe the Egis are just the first phase of their physical development.

So what do you think, mew?

[Malacite]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

Titan is kinda cute actually :3

[Firewind]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

It seems they are playing it like FFXI Lore-Wise. You are summoning fragments of the Primal's power. Pet jobs are also notorious for being a pain in MMOs given how simple the AI is and how often it seems to bug out.

It will be interesting to see what they do with this anyway. I do quite like the idea of the summon popping up and vanishing for the spell animation because that would mean far less pets running around that can screw things up in raids. Your average player sadly can't handle that much micromanagement.

[Aeni]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

I'm still waiting for a response from Yyg ... possibly incoming in 3... 2... 1...

[Icemage]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

Titan is kinda cute actually :3

It's a pile of rocks... how is that "cute"?


Icemage

[Melody]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

Ifrit looks like a Chocobo.

[Malacite]

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It looks like a chibi yellow demon from Mega Man ^_^

[Armando]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

It looks like a chibi yellow demon from Mega Man ^_^

[Melody]

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I hope when you Vendor on XIV you get to set up a character booth. I get to do that on Pandora Saga (if anyone's played it) and it's pretty neat. I'll be throwing my money at SE one more time. Let's see if they're worth it.

[Malacite]

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Not sure about that. The original plan was to keep the vendor stalls in the market areas, but so far it seems like the market areas don't even exist anymore.

[Firewind]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

So far the Beta just had some board you clicked that was completely devoid of items because the tutorial doesn't even tell you about the board even when you get to hire retainers XD .

[Malacite]

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Plus I thought Yoshi P more or less confirmed an AH is in the works and slated for release in either the 1st or 2nd major patch after launch?

[Firewind]

Re: What do you think of the summons, the Egi Primals?

The board itself wasn't bad. It had a good search function and it was fast and idiotproof to use. I wouldn't say no to them just keeping that.

[Malacite]

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I quite honestly prefer the board to the old markets - it felt like a much more streamlined AH from XI with visible categories you can click on as opposed to a drop-down menu.