Let’s be honest, however, what do the bigger numbers matter if the vast landscape is but a texture desert? Many of us are familiar with the idea of traversing a massive map in an MMO or even a single-player RPG, only to see copy-paste hills, trees, poorly designed grass, and clip-through butterflies.

The Elder Scrolls Online rocks a whopping 400 km 2 map area, how big is yours? How about 950 km 2, n00bs? Yeah, try taking on the king of all MMOs, the World of Warcraft! (Quick answer: Ashes of Creation Alpha-1 map will be 100 km 2, but the world at launch could be anywhere between 480 and 580 km 2! How come? What can we expect of this massive size? Continue reading to learn more!)Īt a certain point in time we decided to look at MMORPGs in square kilometers.