The game would be better without stats

[Canadane]

We used to have a lot of degree of control in our stats, to the point where you could meld both positive and negative enmity materia.
They took it all away and numbers now are just a façade.

[MonsutaMan]

Damn, not sure what else they would use? Swag lol? Guess it would work similar to luck..........

Is there actually a MMO without stats? I think MHW comes the closest, but they have power.

Stats are all part of the carrot chase. MMO players have grown to become enamored by stats, e-peen, etc.

[ShariusTC]

saying you never do crafting and gathering without say it

[mallleable]

I don't know. The stats are pretty boring, but I would rather they make changes to make them a little more fun to use instead of just delete them entirely.

[SieyaM]

Are people even melding things besides crit dhit and det?

[Wawaya]

Are people even melding things besides crit dhit and det?

Skill speed and Spell speed

[Catwho]

Stats on melds are useless and barley noticeable..
The whole character stat window is useless

I am not against the idea of having to empower stats but I believe the this will not work for the game..

Why not replacing stats with additional conditional skills?

additional skill will be activated if X happens

Hard disagree. Stat grinding is the most fun part of any FF game as far as I'm concerned.