Load times

They have a pretty bad engine in terms of loading content.

I don't know why they haven't fixed it. It's pretty slow on PC considering.

I had to buy an SSD to play PoE, which meant no money for MTX. GGG's loss really.

I don't have an SSD in either my PC or PS4. What I found on my PC is that the game can generally take a couple of minutes to initially load but zone transitions take less than a minute.

That probably constitutes a "long wait" for people with much newer equipment than me, but personally I find it perfectly fine and not outside the bounds of what I'd typically expect of load times in other PC or PS4 games.

That said, can anyone with both an XBox and PC confirm how the load times compare between versions? For example, does a console with a regular HDD have load times shorter, about the same, or longer than equivalent PC hardware? I genuinely can't see load times being a big concern or problem for me, but I'm curious.

Well it depends what you want todo, if you speedfarm maps, you spend less than 2 minutes in a map, when you add then 2x 30sec for loading, makes that a huge impact. Most annoyingly, if the targetting fails somehow and instead of the mapdevice you enter the old map again and waste 1 minute...

If you are a relaxed gamer, you might not feel it that much, but yeah ssd or xbox one x reduces loading times up to 70/80% X with external ssd seems to be the fastest by far.