Whats going on over there?

[Kaurhz]

If by "people" you mean the few dozens of them world wide on these forums.

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No people have longed for more challenging 4-man content, this is not just present on these forums. Dating back as far as SB with these requests, even as far as on Reddit. I would stand to argue that if I tried hard enough I could probably find it present on Q/A. Just as people wanted harder large-scale raids and their response was DRS.

They've apparently had enough feedback and demand on it to consider incorporating it into the game over whatever piece of content they elected to subtract/discontinue.