Whenever I interact with any kind of "shopkeeper", like Reda, the village smith, or the guys marked on the map by a question mark, it takes roughly (I didn't time it) five seconds or so for the conversation to load.
I can travel from one end of the world to the other mostly without hiccups but these small things take ages in comparison. I'm also sure the problem didn't exist when I started playing (shortly before last year's in-game Halloween) but it's relatively recent.
Connected-ish, why does the game even still spawn the question mark guys when I uncovered absolutely everything besides the treasure dots that are not counted for completion? I can even give them money because one category isn't greyed out. And often they seem to wander in threes.