Quote Originally Posted by Striker44 View Post
It's designed for exactly the people who don't want to do 8-man raids, but want something more difficult than what was currently offered.
I keep hearing about these supposed people, but I've never seen or met any in-game in like 6 years of playing the game and teaching people how to raid. It must be an unbelievably niche group of people. People who are interested in a challenge will seek it out, whether its 8 man or 4 man.

I do however know a ton of casual players who were hoping for some midcore content that would prime them for Savage; Most of them couldn't get past the first boss of criterion and quit out of frustration.

We can argue all day whether it fulfilled the developers vision or not, but clearly that vision wasn't in line with what many people seemed to hope for.