So you're telling me..

[IruruCece]

Yeah, easy way to kill the job.

i swear, this foolishness is why SE doesn't give a damn about the english forum.

They barely consider feedback from the JP side of things, don't you fret none.

The stat squish was a huge mistake as far as I'm concerned.

IIRC, the stat squish was in no small part due to networking stuff that is well above my understanding of how internet doohickies work. But what I do recall off the top my head, packet sizes were getting large enough to be a problem as larger and larger numbers needed to be calculated. It was explained during one of the presentations leading up to EW's release.