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Originally Posted by Tori Bergquist
With regards to why they dont' drop the attributes all together, I rather imagine it is for the same reason that D&D does not do the same, even though for the most part the D&D system isnow a +5/-5 measuring system.
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Most likely, and it boilds down to: "There's a historical legacy to this game and we have to keep up with it". (I would not be surprised if a future generation of D&D drops the rolled attributes, though. But that's another issue.)
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In my own example, for example, you need both an athletics skill and a STR attribute to develop one character who is athletic and lean vs. another who is brawny and undeveloped.
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Why? This is only sightly important for unexperienced characters. Since the characteristics don't impact on skill advancement, it soon stops being an issue.
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Screw the Vocal Minority.
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I'm not part of the Vocal Minority. You're targeting the wrong person and context here.
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I just find that every time someone analyzes a game without playing it, then tries hard to explain to me why I am not having fun in my weekly MRQ campaign from their formal opinion that you can experience a game system without playing it, leads me to wonder just who, among us all, is really in the hobby to actually play games anymore.
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No one is trying to stop you from enjoying the game in this review or its forum. And you seem to miss the fact that reviews are written without extensive experience playing the game under review, that's in their nature.
I play games I like. If I read a game and give it a try and it doesn't live up to my criteria, then I will not play it. It's a perfectly valid stance and it means no disrepect for people that disagree with what I think about the game or an attempt at preaching at them my opinion.