Mythics have already been made easier (by nearly 50% of the gilcost on some servers) with the large increase of Alexandrite from Salvage II. I can't believe people are still complaining about this. If you want a "casual's relic", go make an Empyrean.

That aside, they have never, ever said that Mythics were meant as the "casual's relic" or whatever. When Mythics were first introduced at the fanfest they appeared, one of the community sites asked a question along the lines of "will it be easier to get than relics?" and they responded with something that boiled down to "Hmm...we think so." That is not a guarantee that it was meant to be a "casual's" relic, it was just SE being bad at estimating the difficulty of the item like they do almost all the damn time. And frankly, gil-wise the price wasn't much higher- I think it was even lower for a while- during the 75 era, it's just that mythics were mostly garbage at the 75 cap so few ever bothered making them.

It's so surreal seeing rumors/hearsay/quote mining like this form in front of your eyes, just serves as reminder how people will take anything out of context in order to serve their beliefs if that's what's convenient for them, and then it passes onto other people who don't know any better and the entire argument is based on malice or bad reading comprehension. Not saying they arn't partly at fault for being so out of touch with the community, but I wish people would go back and actually read the damn interview before once again pulling stuff out of their ass.