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

[Lambdafish]

I decided to create this thread due to the overwhelming outburst towards the patch delays, as well as the general consensus that the game is becoming bland. I get that developing content costs money and time, but there are very easy ways to keep players entertained that does not take much man power and resources. Feel free to add your own suggestions.

- Add mounts (flying or otherwise) and minions to Bismark and Ravana. Like primals before it, this would encourage players to go back to this content and make it semi relevant again. As the only mid-core content, this is a very necessary step, and primals should be relevant for the entire patch, not just for 3 weeks until eso comes out, or in bismarks case, until you beat it once.

- Make old ponies able to fly. This would make the old primals relevant again, and would give people who gave up on their pony farm to come back at the chance to get these mounts that can now fly.

- Add a coil mount as a rare drop from T13. This would give people a reason to go back to T13 and farm it again, ideally this would only drop if doing the content synced.

- For the love of Hydaelyn, add esoterics to more content. This in turn makes the current content more exciting, and makes the fractumreap nightmare more bearable.

- Planned Gold Saucer challenge log should have been introduced earlier, again, reminding people that Gold Saucer exists.

- Add more reason to do the sightseeing log - suggested by Alipoprocks

- Relic quest in 3.07 or 3.09 (which would be this week for example) - suggested by Alex_Lenderson

- Add the relevance that SCOB savage never had. I always found that titles was a mistake for this content, and while its a bit late now, my complaint back in 2.3X was that SCOBS should have had actual rewards such as minions, mounts, and barding. My idea was that from this content you would be able to get a minion of Rafflasia, Melusine, Avatar, and finally a Wind up Nael (garlean armoured version, not dragon lady version, or maybe a minion of both). Ideally these would only be rewarded for beating the content synced.


I realise that its too late to do this now, and the devs will have to ride the wave of angry players all the way to November, but the general idea is to prove that this could have very easily been avoided without creating a tonne of dungeon content, or story content or new gameplay in order to compensate, its all about making content relevant.