Originally posted by retsam1:

I'm just saying that's why they stated they did it and that they'd actually considered doing more negatively impacting scenarios before settling on what we have.

It's the simplest way of avoiding those problems for sure, but the game should have enough knowledge of where player items are to be a little more surgical than locking down everything in a *five hundred meter* radius. If they're ever going to improve that mechanic, Mistlands would be the time.