[coreys]

I think I can see his point. In essence a spreadsheet is basically a more visual form of an SQL table (and much easier to work with, not that SQL is difficult). While there is the SQL Explorer readily available, it is just much easier and a much more viable solution to use a spreadsheet.

You have to think about development as something involving more than just yourself. Just because you are easily able to use the tools already available to us doesn't mean that others on your team are. Spreadsheets would make it trivial to have just about anybody with a good idea to be able to tweak stats and create items, characters, and such, so that you don't have to. That's the real value I see in this, because I, much like many of the people in this thread, am perfectly able to edit an ini file or manipulate SQL. But I know people on projects I'm on who get a lot more done and make better content if they could manipulate the data too.