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

[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