As soon as the old Kratos model is combined with more than 4 words per hour, it makes no sense anymore whatsoever.
New patch just released for God of War on Steam. They've implemented a "small object culling" system to reduce the number of objects being processed by the CPU.. which apparently helps AMD CPUs an average of 20% in frametimes above 95th percentile. Some pretty darn good improvements/additions. Finally some love for AMD CPU/GPU users as well! I can't test their performance improvement claims as I've completed and uninstalled the game, but I see no reason to doubt them. A few people have already mentioned dramatically better performance on various forums. It's great to see them continuing to update and improve the game. My suspicion is that any work they're doing now contributes to improving Ragnarok when it (potentially) releases on PC in the future.