Cheap and Easy ways to keep players entertained (devs please read)

[PotatoWafflez]

The ponies have already been confirmed to be getting the ability to fly in 3.1 I believe? or at least they will fly at some point between now and 4.0 but they confirmed it ages ago.
I assume they will add new primal mounts at the same time as this seeing how the original ones didn't start with them either and I assume this is to pad out the longevity of the content by adding it later so you have a reason to go back instead of just farming it right from the start.

They should really rework sightseeing so that the original system can be used for something else maybe something to do with more in-depth lore telling and just have the old sightseeing work like HS so people aren't gated by waiting for the right time of weather at the right time of day that would make it much more accessible and people might bother to do it without a bigger carrot on a stick, as the barrier to entry on it is stupidly high for what it is.

[Lambdafish]

The ponies have already been confirmed to be getting the ability to fly in 3.1 I believe? or at least they will fly at some point between now and 4.0 but they confirmed it ages ago.

Yeah, there is some content on this list that has been confirmed by the devs (flying ponies, relic quest), but the point is that this content could easily come out in a smaller patch (3.05, 3.07, 3.09) and is enough to keep players interested in the content in the game that has become tired and irrelevant. By delaying it to the bigger patch, there is now a vacuum of no new content, and the game needs something to fill the gap right now.

[PotatoWafflez]

Yeah, there is some content on this list that has been confirmed by the devs (flying ponies, relic quest), but the point is that this content could easily come out in a smaller patch (3.05, 3.07, 3.09) and is enough to keep players interested in the content in the game that has become tired and irrelevant. By delaying it to the bigger patch, there is now a vacuum of no new content, and the game needs something to fill the gap right now.

So the fact that it is confirmed but not in the game yet somehow makes the content irrelevant? When you can currently go and farm them? Unless of course you have all the ponies but at that point the content is already moot to you anyhow.

I assume you also aren't stock piling materia ahead of time so that if they do add another materia stage for the relic you are already sorted?

What about minions do you have all of those? For Lords of Verminion?

There's plenty of things you can be doing now for later.

Even if they added new content it would be burnt out by the time November rolled around save for the relic quest in theory but even then it would probably end up being some horrible horrible RNGfest that is designed solely to tie you over till November and beyond because you'd still have months to wait for the next stage and no one wants that.

[Lambdafish]

So the fact that it is confirmed but not in the game yet somehow makes the content irrelevant? When you can currently go and farm them? Unless of course you have all the ponies but at that point the content is already moot to you anyhow.

That's not the case at all, but its all about incentive for the playerbase. There are a lot of people that got bored of pony farming or never started because they missed the bandwagon of people interested because they raised the drop rate. This lack of players doing the content makes doing the content more difficult. If they made them fly, then suddenly everyone who doesn't have them, wants them. You are also directing this at me personally, when the thread is designed for the player-base as a whole.

I assume you also aren't stock piling materia ahead of time so that if they do add another materia stage for the relic you are already sorted?

I was not aware that they announced the way that the new relic works, that's not content for the player base to do, that's blind assumptions

What about minions do you have all of those? For Lords of Verminion?

I try to collect minions as and when I can, but there aren't any minion rewards that can be worked towards (see suggestions that have been made) other than rare dungeon drops and crafting really (exception being the gobwalker minion, which I'm sure a lot of people have the material drop for as A4 is easy to farm)

Even if they added new content it would be burnt out by the time November rolled around save for the relic quest in theory but even then it would probably end up being some horrible horrible RNGfest that is designed solely to tie you over till November and beyond because you'd still have months to wait for the next stage and no one wants that.

Again, heavy assumptions to do with the relic quest, and the idea of this thread is to discuss ways in which content wont be burnt out by November, which in the current game seems to have suffered from.

Your entire post seems to suggest that the content of the next patch should keep the playerbase entertained right now, when actually we don't have that patch yet and are stuck waiting, we have very few details as to the content of the patch that can be prepared for, and the rest is baseless assumptions that the majority of the playerbase would take with a grain of salt