More like over a minute or three to walk between areas... pretty much what you said but amplified. I've read numerous reasons but they are all theoretical - from killing jaheira because of an issue there, to clearing your camp storage to save file corruption.... It would just be nice to know exactly what exactly the issue is - it doesn't need to be fixed to comment on it at least. If we knew the issue was, we could avoid doing said issue while waiting for the next patch update.
