"New game plus - quests will have no rewards..."

[ForteNightshade]

Here's how to stop the exploit- if you have a new job, i.e. a job that has NOT done the MSQ, it could gain exp in NG+. It would be another way to level up jobs without having to grind fates, do beast tibes, do dungeons, etc... Some people like to level up when you're questing. It's not an exploit- it's leveling while questing. "But you'll reach level 80 by doing quests" yeah, that's... the whole point. Nearly everyone who plays this game wants to reach level 80.

When did questing become exploitative? In every single MMO I've played, when you start a new class, you can restart all of the quests. This game has one character doing all classes which means that all quests can only be used on one class

You're misinterpreting what I said. Leveling through quests isn't exploitative. Being able to restart all those quests and skip every cut scene to rapidly level with zero effort is, especially when you can simply restart at any moment. You could only do the level 70 ShB quests and restart NG+ afterwards. That offers nearly 11M EXP for doing almost nothing.

Now before you or anyone suggests making the cut scenes unskippable to prevent. No. That makes the feature obnoxious because not everyone reads at the same speed. What it boils down to is you're arbitrarily making a feature unless enjoyable for its intended audience purely so you can have yet another level alternative when the game has several.

"The game needs to have a little something for everyone..."
"Regardless of how many people wanted this..."

Uh... hmm.

Regardless this is smelling more and more like Lords of Verminion.

Except no one asked for Lord of Verminion nor did anyone even want it. Now if they designed it to play like Pokemon, it could very easily have been quite popular. Instead, we got the mess of a RTS system they came up with. Regardless, you're making one hell of a reach here comparing the two.