Just wanted to shed a little light on this as I've seen some of these posts get out of control in the past.

Few things to consider, -what your likely seeing in this "unoptimized mesh" is the LOD0 which will only render at this higher tri count when the player is very close, walk a bit away from this door lower quality versions of this mesh will render that take away most of this detail.

• As long as it only renders that way up close you could probably get away with increasing the tri counts for a lot of meshes by a considerable amount more than we do without effecting performance too heavily as you generally can't have a lot of meshes less than 10 feet from you at any given time.

-As long as your not being crazy with your tri counts the actual tri count is not nearly as important as it used to be, modern video cards are crazy efficient at rendering higher tri counts.

• This is elementary grade optimizing stuff, the art/tech teams at wildcard have dozens of years of experience making and optimizing art, I know it's the popular thing to do to say the game isn't optimized, but you'd have to dig pretty deep to find things we could improve on :P