I have to say, owning your own customizable castle is a really cool feature. That along with combat and exploration are swaying me to buy this game. Even if I already hate the characters.
You can't import a DA:O or DA2 save file, that was confirmed some weeks ago. This is more about the game (and players) coming to new platforms. The series is... what... 6 years old now? I guess a lot of people threw their files away or lost them.I would find it really odd if you couldn't import your save in Keep and then from there to DA:I.
Or hell if couldn't import your DA2 save in DA:I, just for the record the whole new engine argument doesn't work because it's just a bunch of variables. DA2 had a different engine then DA:O anyway.
Where and when was that said?If the series is meant to have 5 episodes as planned, they did the right thing.
http://forum.bioware.com/topic/510457-dragon-age-keep-faqs/That's really weird to not able to import in Keep at least. It also makes no sense on PC.
On consoles sure that's one thing. Where was it confirmed anyway?
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/featu...-dragon-age-inquisition-39-s-development.aspxWhere and when was that said?
But overall you're right, I tried to investigate the question a bit, I couldn't find a clear answer about that apart from that above."Will there be traditional Save-Game-Import?
No!
Why not?
There were many bug issues from DA:O to DA2. This is the easiest way to do it."
It comes up because that's at least reason the developers gave. People aren't just making it up.As this argument comes up, time and again: The engine doesn't have anything to do with it. It's just reading a couple of variables from the save file and adjusting the game state in DAI accordingly. I guess it is about most players switching platform, or maybe, though unlikely, the savegames not storing the information in a very accessible way - thus the DA2 import screw-up. To further discourage the engine argument: If I understand it correctly, the Dragon Age Keep is basically a website, isn't it? Well then, it's not running in Frostbyte either.
Example for cross-engine save import? The Witcher.
Not really for Leliana in DA2. That's what they choose to do, not a bug or a flaw, her "death" is acknowledge by the game's dialogs. They wanted Leliana to go back [eventually, from the dead].Even DA2, despite it's huge flaws did imports OK with the exception of Leliana and Anders. They recognized choices like your monarch for Fereldan, Orzammar, the werewolf choice, the Circle etc.