They must be a placeholder; I haven't read that this is the case anywhere, I just think it makes sense, like I said in my lengthy post, that they didn't have everything spelled out, literally, in the beta to prevent people from digging into the nitty gritty (like so many did), and instead force focus on actual gameplay testing. There's no way they'll accomplish their goal of making the game more accessible (and we all know what they mean when they say that now) by making the stats screen pre-Demon's Souls confusing.

I didn't really touch on it but: the inventory. I heard a lot of people saying it was improved, now that you scroll over a very specific category of weapon/item-type and then have a tile based inventory ... picture Stockpile Thomas' box, but instead of the vertical list style of both previous games, it's tiled. That's Dks2's inventory style. It's probably because I'm just not used to it...but I wasn't in love with it. I know it's pretty widely accepted that Dark Souls' inventory management system is crap...but you get used to it and it's not that awful. At least everything is BIG on the screen so you can see it. Items were tiny in the Dks2 network test version.

I think it'd be jolly if you could pick between different styles. Maybe that would somehow introduce glitching like we saw with inventory related havoc in Dark Souls 1 but...who knows.

/end incoherent rambles