Can we please delay Savage?

[SaitoHikari]

I am in support for delaying Savage by 1 week. Aside from all the arguments mentioned here whose only counter is 'that's a you problem if you decide the rest of the game/your life is more important than raiding', the current design is completely anti-ethical to SE's philosophy regarding how the game should be enjoyed. SE wants people to take their time to enjoy the game at their own pace.

Why do raiders have to get singled out to choose between raiding behind the pressures of a weekly lockout, and experiencing everything else in a patch first before the community inevitably tries to spoil things for them beforehand? A world first race will happen regardless of whenever the savage tier is actually released. But for a game whose main selling point is the story, whose development staff ALREADY split raids into normal/savage modes TWO ENTIRE EXPANSIONS AGO because enough people complained about the story being gated behind difficult raids, and whose development team ALSO already split many trials away from the main quest because of the complaints about not being able to jump into them immediately...

It seems like a terrible design decision to still keep encouraging one aspect of the community to speed through/ignore certain content because weekly lockouts are a thing, and also because of an arbitrary race for some teams on top of that. The first tier of an expansion's raid series is already delayed by a full month so that people can go through the story and level their classes, and the savage variant of that is released 2 weeks after that still. That didn't affect the content balance or the integrity of the world first race at all, so I'm not sure what the hell people are expecting that would make the situation any different for the latter two raid tiers.

Hell, the staff already released some of the new Nier raid quests in this recent patch, presumably because they didn't want to hear complaints that mirror the Ridorana Lighthouse pre-quest situation again.