Quote Originally Posted by Darkstride View Post
Because SE allows obsolete gameplay systems to linger around so that they appear to have purpose. Bonus stats and cross-class abilities are relics from 1.0 that no longer function as a way of customization. However, SE still leaves them there in order to have some appearance that choice matters. It doesn't - there's no real choice in which bonus stat to allocate, and there's no real choice in cross class abilities since it is so severely limited.
Well in all fairness right now it's perfectly functional so why should they go and redesign the entire system? That's a lot of extra work and man hours for something that's not going to increase profits. I say if it isn't broken don't fix it.