Square Enix is so out of touch with the playerbase sometimes.

NO ONE asked for Savage to be nerfed. Almost everyone who is interested in doing the completely optional Gordias Savage want to do it for the CHALLENGE. Tons and tons of people have been waiting to get better gear before finally tackling the much hyped AS3 and its interesting mechanics. Now the mechanics have been nerfed, and victory would just feel hollow. What's even the point?

Nerfing fights into the ground like this without providing the option to do it the original way is sacrilege in any video game.

For SCoB, Square Enix provided the Savage mode as a way to retain the original difficulty of SCoB when it was nerfed. But this is ALREADY Savage! It should never be nerfed in the first place, but if they feel the need to do it anyway they should at least make the nerfs optional.