Quote Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh View Post
Except that's unneeded resources on an object people will never really look at more than once or up close. Add up several more of those flowerpot shenanigans and you got one big unoptimized mess. No one is blaming the flowerpots only. Said pot is just a leading example.
To add to this, 1.0 had an engine that wasn't optimized at all to handle an MMO. They used Crystal Tools, the same engine used to handle the FFXIII games, and was primarily designed as a cutscene engine. In other words, someone at SE goofed up. No wonder PCs couldn't handle it.