User blog comment:Supersonicman/Different Provinces/@comment-5469467-20130430052334/@comment-3217145-20130501155308

Oh, I don't know about "immersion breaking." I can't just skip into North Korea and start beating up bad guys as a vigilante. A random Japanese person probably wouldn't want to vacation in the USA during WWII. They could certainly try, but it wouldn't end well, and probably wouldn't make for a very heroic or fun experience. I assume there will be natural barriers or guarded, locked gates at borders between provinces, rather than the dreaded "you cannot go this way" message. After all, if they let not just one person, but the entire enemy alliance to wander around their sovereign lands, they wouldn't last long in the war, would they? Spies and sabotage and all that.

And I will confirm, for what my claims are worth, that you are allowed to visit every place with any character after making enough progress (I think level 50). Actually, I think what they said was that only certain parts of each province are totally locked off based on faction, and other areas can be entered but are hostile, but that might just be what happens when you hit level 50 and are allowed into the provinces in the first place.

Oh. And I want to see Valenwood. Mostly so I can skydive off the tree cities and talk to (i.e. poach) Ewoks.