4.2 Updates from Q&A with Yoshida

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Not really going to dig into this too much, but you really have no idea how bad Gordias was to the raiding community. The Gordias tier didn't have "plenty of raid groups" coming together, it actually reduced the active raiding population by quite a bit.
The group of players standing at the Gordias entrance, on reset day, would shrink with every following week (this was back when going to the entrance was still a requirement to going into Alexander), and the majority of the statics I knew about ended up falling apart on A3S.

You're probably right about Midas, but I stopped raiding for that tier, and didn't go back to it until the release of Creator.

OT: I'm happy with the fact that they're choosing to keep the difficulty of Sigmascape similar to Deltascape, if they're using v3/4s as a baseline. I do think they could make the first two floors a tiny bit harder, though.

Plenty relative to what was available. I'll concede how successful they were... leaves something to be desired. That being said, my rebuttal was more Riyah's insistence you couldn't raid in either Gordias or Midas without experience. You certainly could. I am well aware Gordias was a disaster for the raid scene, but no one is asking for that level of difficulty again. Frankly, that is what I find so irksome. Whenever difficulty or lack thereof is mentioned, someone instantly jumps to the tier virtually everyone acknowledges—devs included—was poorly designed. There's a middle ground between Gordias and Omega. It also cannot be stressed enough the impact cross world PF had. The absence of this feature severely limited recruitment pools hence why Gilgamesh became what it was.

Regardless, the crux of my reply dealt more with the fact someone who doesn't even participate in Savage was essentially assuming my position and opinion. Which I didn't appreciate.

I'll grant you V3/4S, though I do wish they would stick to what they said originally and gradually built back up. Omega -> Creator -> Midas (Perhaps slightly easier)