Quote Originally Posted by Argh View Post
no;

all they have to do to alleviate the ps3's ram limitations is to make the zones significantly smaller. it's that simple. there would not be the copy paste syndrome anymore. ffxi did this excat thing and it has a wonderful and complex world.
And you'd be wrong. Size has little to do with it. Games with much smaller zones feature major asset recycling anyway (start calling things with their name by the way, i'm sure copy/paste has a nice dramatic effect, but it's not how asset recycling works).
It has to do with resolution, detail and polycount. Not only of the zones by the way, but of everything displayed, including characters, decorations, monsters and buildings.

I understand your personal bashing agenda forces you to somehow fight against every kind of notion that asset recycling doesn't necessarily come from some unjustified lazyness and cruelty on SE's part, but that's the reality of things