So..to those of you saying the PS3 WAS NOT going to limit this game.

[Returnee]

Originally I started playing the initial beta and official release of FFXIV 1.0 with an old Core 2 Duo @ 2.5ghz and a GTS 450 (Not a powerful video card) to support it and I had absolutely 0 problems running the game on Maximum settings while getting a constant 30-45fps. Dropping it down to standard (which still looked really really good) I could manage 50-60fps constantly.

I'm not trying to dispute your claims here, but I'd love to know why my system failed so terribly at playing FFXIV 1.0 then.

At the time I had a 3.0 ghz Core 2 Duo and an ATI 5850. The only real weak point was 2gb ram. But the game performed so terribly it was unplayable - and I'm not super picky about frame rates. I tested all sorts of configurations too trying to improve performance.

I also recall seeing people with much better systems, i5/17, more ram, beefy gpu, complaining about poor performance; am I the only one that remembers things being this way?