Originally Posted by
Zoridium JackL
while I'll admit the land mass is a little on the small side you need to also take into account what is done with it (and the fact that it's only a recent launch).
a lot of games are filled with dead space, this space exists for no really good reason other then to cheat you into thinking the area is big (it is big, but not for any good reason), in my time in WoW i think I only ever experienced a few zones that where genuinely large without the space being mostly pointless, and I'm pretty sure they were all parts of later expansions. defiance does have dead space, but it's never expansive and usually just offers breathing room between event spaces, and provides a reason for mounts to exist.
something else to consider is how travel works, the vehicles in Defiance offer a lot of mobility and make larger distances feel like they are smaller, walking from A-B can take ages in Defiance and you'd get held up a lot by random events, but the vehicle lets you bypass most things (and usually ignore significant terrain) to get around, in most MMOs mounts have a severely gimped speed, so you can only cover ground so fast even if you are flying, like how crossing large areas in WoW often came down to pointing your mount in the right direction, pressing the forward movement toggle and going to get a coffee. defiance trades-off those inflated travel times for the sake of convenience.
yes the land mass is small, but that;s because it's no bigger then it needs to be to accommodate what they've put into it, the alternative is a load of dead space to artificially increase the square footage at the expense of wasting your time. sure even with all that taken into consideration it's still a pretty small area, but it's much more understandable and definitely not unreasonable.
