So my first post:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1275604-so-just-how-many-users-are-having-problems-with-their-ps3-copy/page__st__100__p__19330590#entry19330590

My second post:
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1284287-to-all-the-users-having-problems-post-here/page__p__19386094#entry19386094

After my second post I kept playing and my save file eventually hit 10.5MB.
The game became virtually unplayable as blocking animations and swing animations would not register properly.
Walking through cities felt like when you get a sync error in a MMO and you run in place.

Got the patch today, and it looks like my save file went down to ~9.8MB after I immediately saved a new file.

The frame problems have gone back down to the levels from my first post.
Which is better than where I was prior to the patch.
Very playable, especially when you consider I've raided with severe lag in different MMO's and lived with it.
But still, it's very detracting especially for an offline game

Not sure what to say.
Is this the last we're going to see a fix for the "occasional performance issues"?
Or is there going to be more work done?

(I have this horrible feeling that this patch just delayed the inevitable and the game is just going to degenerate back to the way it was prior to the patch...)