Originally Posted by
Bonoki
The restrictions are kept in place way to long. I do realize however that this is a marketing strategy. They are waiting deliberately until we're closer to 7.0's release when we're at the peak of people resubbing for that new expansion hype. Intentionally keep the game feeling stale now so that the game seemingly looks active later and the returning players can get into parties. In theory, if they unlocked Savage earlier, the game would be less active for the returning players when they come back.
Everything SE does is always related to bringing people back to the game and this is their last move before the expansion drops.