Okay. I posted this in another thread just now. Please, stop with these anti-exploration freedom threads. They're so lame, especially when you don't understand the scale of Tamrial.
I do feel people underestimate the scale of the world we'll be playing at.
http://i.imgur.com/QAg9u.jpg
Take a look at this map. Now, look at the Ebonheart Pact. It consists of the whole of Skyrim, the whole of Morrowind and the whole of the black marshes. You're not going to be playing in some small restricted area.
People in the ebonheart pact have TWO FULL TES games to explore in. That's MORE than enough to offset the complaints of area restrictions. You're playing in not only the WHOLE of skyrim, foot to foot, pixel to pixel, then we have to step into Morrowind. Let's look at the other two pacts; The other two regions are the size of Skyrim plus half of Morrowind. Let's see, it took me 300 hours of exploring TES:Skyrim to get every marker complete on the map. 300 HOURS. It would take 450 hours of playing MINIMUM to explore the whole of your accessible region; and people wanna complain still.
I hate all these naysayers about restrictions in ESO. They don't realize how much land they get to play on.