New Unreal is a an all around miserable experience.

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I don't recall the devs stating any of this. From what I recall, the problems began with Gordias, continued into Midas, and started getting better with Creator. There was a lot of trial and error back then, and current content, even Ultimate will never have the kind of difficulty associated with the inexperience between dev and playerbase that AS had. Regardless with how you feel about savage, the majority of the playerbase is incapable of clearing that content. If you disagree, start up a PUG in PF and see for yourself.

The ultimates were brought in as a replacement for harder type savage content as the savage content from midas got easier, the devs did state this.

They couldn't tune savages higher but instead brought in another type of content that allowed for it.

Also I honestly think the issue wasn't how hard gordias and midas were, it was that Coil at the time had a much smaller but in my opinion skilled playerbase did it.

When HW released, the devs made a bigger deal for people to do Alexander raids, which meant more people did it that simply did not expect to be hit so hard with savage type content, the devs did a bad job to say to players they need to get better before doing them.