Why did they remove 8v8 feast?

[Valic]

I really enjoyed the occasional dip into 8v8 feast with a friend. I'm glad I got my Garo grind done when it was still in the game. 4v4 has a much more intense quality to it, and it's just not what I'm looking for.

8v8 is to 4v4 as story mode raids are to Savage. They wouldn't delete story mode and ostracize the players who want to see those storylines without the stress of heavy challenge in the name of being able to to make an extra couple of Savage bosses per tier, so I've never been able to understand why 8v8 had to go.

Casual PvP hasn't been any fun for me since Stormblood. All that's left is a handful of massive chaotic 72s with ten buttons. There's nothing in between that's smaller and more focused without being stressful and intense.

Agreed. I don't know how anyone enjoys zergfests, anything I do is just hit a GCD on a target, then tab to the next thing so I can do it again... No satisfaction in getting your own kills anymore. By the time you have battle high, it doesn't matter because everything's being zerged anyways or pinched. I miss when my damage made a significant difference instead of it being one of 100 GCD's being plowed down on a single healer. The constant movement in this new pvp mode is annoying too, you don't really pvp for very long. You try to take the node and push sides hoping your tanks know how to ya know.... tank.... And after you get it, you bail and move to another one. Half the time there's nothing to do because it's already over or it's such a zergfest that everyone's hp is dropping equally without it making a difference what you really do.

In 8v8, you can at least tell where your effort was worth it. The culling time cut down on the dullness of no kills that happens like these zergfests provide where everyone gets much easier to kill to break up the madness. It was a mode for PVP I'd argue... whereas most of what we have now is a streamlined goal oriented mode with pvp "around" it. As much as I love rival wings for actually having a bit of everything and working well with only 2 sides and being the closest thing to 8v8..... we don't have a roulette for it and it's still another gimmick centered mode. I don't want to join 4v4 cuz they're just savage mode pvp that hardly anyone queues for since the new map is pretty dang bleh as is. Just some casual small team pvp would be nice. 4v4 training is just as bad as ranked too, you can't really be whatever you want anytime and overall it just comes down to people queue'ing in premade with voice to organize attacks.