This is a serious issue for me as well. So far, I have taken to visiting as few "optional" areas as possible, just trying to focus on completing the main quest. but, this is really sad to me, since I love hearing optional story. But especially with the side quests that cause you to run from one place to the next, delivering items and running errands, the load times right now take up SO much time. It starts to feel like I am spending more time staring at a load screen than actually playing the game. It's gotten to the point where I will only play Pillars while I am doing something else, like eating dinner. So I play a lot less often than I used to. I hope this is fixed by the time the sequel is released...you have a great story here, but the load times are just ridiculous. One quick fix would seem to be disabling the autosave when any new area is entered. that seems to account for the majority of the load time. at least, let us turn it on and off ourselves. this way, i will save before i am about to do something risky, and the rest of the time, i can just keep playing at a normal pace.
