What if the materia system is the future of elite gear, and this dungeon is literally a training ground for what is to come? I could see plenty of limited future content built around the company system where you purchase tokens and are allowed access to specific boss fights/dungeons where the best gear could come from. This is down the road after they really are done balancing stats and such and have introduced the jobs. What we have now is just filler/demo of what is to come, and yes it sucks to be a hard core gamer playing the never ending waiting game but in the end when PS3 launches and they start charging I think it will have been worth the wait and right now I'm enjoying the process.