Core i7 930, 6GB of RAM (soon to be 12GB) dual ATI 5750 graphics cards and this game still really chugs at times

The alt-tabbing not being fixes still drives me CRAZY, as windowed mode only uses one of the graphics cards in crossfire configuration instead.

I admit the game looks good, but the game does not look THAT good. We should not be seeing the performance hits that we are seeing with this engine. I know that its a MMO but when I can run Bioshock 2, Portal 2, and various other games at max settings and XIV I have to keep turning it down to run at any sort of smoothness there is a problem.

If this was by design I am still confused, because a LOT of people tend to play MMO's on more underpowered machines (my friends play other MMO's on their netbooks) I would have hoped that they could have made the engine scale better. I am concerned to see how the PS3 version is actually going to look if it ever comes out (not that I will be getting it) if its struggling on pretty beefy PC's its going to take come crazy optimization to get it up to proper speed.