Quote Originally Posted by Viridiana_Sovari View Post
If you look at what Yoshi P said during fanfest, I don't think a lot of people understand what he meant.
You must've been watching a different fan fest stream, or perhaps it's you who didn't understand what Yoshi-P said. It was never said that they're planning to scrap the current normal/story mode for the raid.

An idea they're playing around with is having the difficult content (as in, the 8-man raid) still in the even numbered patches, with the possibility of an even higher difficulty thing in the odd numbered patches.