GinaBruno: This was ultimately caused by a fix we implemented with today’s patch to address long loading screens in zones with high player density. At this time, we have reverted this fix. However, we have applied a temporary fix for the loading screen issue until we have a more solid fix for it.
By no means I'm here to mock Gina, I think she is doing damn good and tough job on this, but please... We applied a patch on the patch that will be removed in the patch of the next patch. That's how it sounded like to my ears.
While you guys are busy crafting Morrowind, please hire some people to test and fix this game further. So many annoying bugs are still in the game and you are not even acknowledging them, let alone trying to fix. What's happening behind the scenes, we certainly don't know, but there are so many valid bug reports, yet only fraction of them have a ZOS reply.