If we had made a drinking game from delays in SMN development we would all have alcohol poisoning right now.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/22868-Whatever-happened-to-Cait-Sith-and-Atomos?p=369386#post369386
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Good morning!
We understand that many of you have been looking forward to the implementation of Cait Sith for some time now and we apologize that we have pushed it back and are making you wait longer.
The development team is would really like to implement this as soon as possible, but they are devoting a lot of their energy to the new jobs on the way as well as completely revamping the special abilities for each job.
Just to give you some insight as to how far along they are with Cait Sith, the avatar can currently be summoned and fight alongside characters; however, no abilities or effects have been added as of yet. Creating effects and adjusting abilities is pretty dense work, but they are working as hard as they can.
We apologize that we cannot give a concrete date for implementation, but we will be sure to let you know of any updates as we hear them.
Looks like we'll get them shortly before SoA is released. Wouldn't be the first time they did something like this I think, wasn't Diablos released shortly before Treasures of Aht Urgan?