Well crafted reply but i dont believe half of it. this is an MMO its probably gonna have a life of about 5+ years, i find it very very hard to believe that when developing the game Bioware did not future proof the game with higher graphic options.
I have the game maxed now if this is as good as it looks then no matter the styling of the graphics it will not age well, someone who posted previously mentioned that people with ultra high specs were having serious slowdown in areas, that is either down to problems with graphics drivers or its a bug somewhere in the games code that needs fixing because others with almost identical setups are having no problems, Iv logged over 200 hours on the game so far and the lowest my FPS has dropped to is around 30 on the imp fleet station.
Im not gonna moan to much because good or bad graphics im having fun actually playing the game but as i mentioned i personally think the dev reply is filled with half truths, the technical parts no have no trouble believing, SWG for instance at the time could come chugging to a halt client side if you had graphics set higher than your PC could handle if an area was filled with hundred of people.
What i refuse to believe however is that the so called "high" settings we are using now are the setting bioware intended from the start.
i didnt get the chance to compare any screenshots from my session last night but after changing the LOD bias to -3.00 using nvidia inspector as a guy in on of the closed copy's of this thread suggested the improvement is quite amazing, going to try out what was suggested a few posts up and see what I get, when I finish work today that is