Quote Originally Posted by Kaelah View Post
The reason 1.0s maps were so copy pasted were because the world was seamless. It's just too much to load with the maps we have now, you'd still have a loading screen, it would just have to be implimented so it could be hidden as mentioned above.
That's not the reason, though. The reason it was so copy pasted was restricted development time and using a poor engine for what they needed.