I loved poe1, beat it, and started in on tyranny. which i also liked. However, i ultimately never finished tyranny due to the extremely long loading screens, as in 3 to 5 minutes. You dreaded having to switch zones, and the further in the game you go, the longer the loading screen. there was no progress bar, and i found myself looking elsewhere for entertainment. Doing research it was a unity bug that had to do with how textures were loaded.

anyways big question here, which effects my decision to buy, is this fixed in POE2?
linking to some gameplay that is not at the beginning with zone switching would be nice :D

Zone loading takes about 5-10 seconds for me, and I'm using magnetics, not SSD. There are already tons of video clips on YouTube so if you must see video of it, go google it.

I watched CohhCarnage on Twitch around his 40-45h in game, and loading times were decent, as in nowhere near even 30 sec, let alone 3 minutes.