I don't feel like i'm playing an mmo...and I know why

[Shioban]

This is incorrect. 1.0 had a seamless world and their servers couldn't handle it. The lag was insane in that game. Just starting to craft it could take your character 1-2 minutes before they finally sat down into the crafting position.

"Completley" was the wrong word to use there, it was if anything one of the larger considerations amougst the others such as the server pressure, design time, overall performance impact/loading data. (Not to mention the horrific LUA scripting they did.)

But the fact still remains that the Playstation 3 limits each zone to a smaller area, and designing a smaller area with detail is easier than a larger area, a problem i'm currently having with my own projects actually. (Fleshing areas out is a nightmare)