SE, the time has come to ignore everything your players say.

[Dererk]

The hardcore players wanted content that separated them from the casuals. They get it and are still complaining. Some complaining that they can't get many people together to clear the content. Well, since they asked to be separate from the casuals, this is what you get.

I'm not going to separate this stuff into 2 Separate play styles.

But it was the people who wanted to watch a coil movie that complained about not having an easier version.

Now we have 2 separate versions of Alexander where you had to do the normal story version for weeks to gear for savage. And this was SE idea of to get people in to help the uhhh well HELL in just going to say it. The bad players who can't find their way out the front door even if they had a map and Siri telling them step by step instructions.

Oh ya and the people who didn't want to dedicate themselves to it. oh ha also those people who have what limited playtime? But to those people will not going to experience everything deal with it.

In the end what happened is these people got their cake ate it while the rest got stuck with the crumbs called savage mode.