Please keep: Surplus, repairs, stat point allocation and job flexibility!

[ShinChuck]

I proposed the rested system or a mitigation of the system since the very beginning of the beta 2 phase. But I'm also aware that telling a developer "just scrap it" simply doesn't work.
If you want to get something from developers you need to mediate.

Also, the experience curve gets slapped around quite often during a release and in the following weeks. You cannot judge a system that influences it until it stabilizes.

As I said, the system isn't "Bad" per se, but it can be done better, and now that the team has changed, there's a serious possibility that the new director will consider just replacing it with something equally functional but less convoluted.

But the idea had been around long before the XIV beta, and was almost assuredly bandied about prior to Beta 2. I've asked for search functions, MP regen, and better targetting since the beta. That doesn't mean I originated those ideas, nor will I actually try to say out of every single person ever discussing FFXIV I was the first to bring them up.

You also never mentioned that you'd prefer a resting-based EXP system back when we were debating the Fatigue system, so forgive me if it sounds a little convenient now that, with SE leaning that way, you say, "But I really supported the idea from the beginning!"

We had enough experience at the time to judge the system. And the complaints ended up being correct, which also supports the idea that we had judged correctly and in an appropriate time frame. So correct, in fact, that SE has acknowledged this. It again sounds convenient that you say you supported a different system, but also say that you felt the fatigue system in place could be fine (a judgment in itself).

If we didn't have enough time to judge it, why would you argue for a different system? You'd have no grounds to.

Even all that being said, I do agree with the last part, I think the new team will likely make some notable changes to it.