RagnarTornquist: Hope that answered your questions!
Yes, thanks a lot!
I don't mind cliffhangers per se, they just make the breaks in between episodes harder to endure, so if a story is split that way I usually prefer to wait until it's complete, so that I can watch/play/read it at my own pace, without long interruptions that make me forget half of what's happened before.
As for the performance issues, it's very well possible that what I read about them preceded your latest patches; it's good to know that you tried to optimize it as best as you could.