[Dev] Overtaxation of PC Hardware

[Ilean]

Maybe it was in beta, but why is FFXIV using more than 50% of my CPU at all times, with a substantial load on all four cores of my AMD Phoenom II X4?

A majority of hardcore gamers might, but not a majority of all PCs.

My client doesn't leak to this much memory, it uses nearly that much just after getting into the game with a character for me.

On a quad core it uses up to 50%. That's because it really is only using the equivalent to 2 cores, although the CPU balances the load between the 4 available.