I am with you on the open world thing i realy like that. That acts in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beyond.gif" alt="" /> where introduced because some players of <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" /> got confused by the large quest list (ruining it for us all <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" /> )
I was thinking about that, but I think it might have had to do with other things aswell. Like performance or something.
Personally I feel however it was to decrease the size of savegames. Remember how in DD your savegame was 100mb+ per savegame? Well, I think that BD was cut into 5 pieces to reduce savegame filesize, as you don't have to save what happened in the previous act.
Or is my theory just completely wrong?
Tovi 
