Not exactly related to Inquisition but as I replayed Origins and am currently playing DA2 for the first time in preparation of playing Inquisition, I'll just vent some steam here:
ARGH! EA's customer support is so terrible and Origin (the EA Steam-thingy, not OriginS) is such a bloody piece of software garbage! For the sake of making things easy and getting an up-to-date version out of the box, I decided to register my Origins Ultimate Edition and just download the whole thing. Only some of the DLCs working and some are there but not working at all (missing item names, no dialogue, strange placeholder names, etc, etc). After some research I figure out that the Origin version doesn't install the service that authenticates your DLC and the only way to do so is by installing some Beta tool released by Bioware in the early days of DA:O to remedy problems with the DLC. Did that, but did no good. So I decide to manually re-install all the DLC from the Bioware Social website (an abandoned and quite broken place these days, never was very usable anyway).
As that did the trick, I happily played through Origins and its expansions until I arrive at Golems of Amgharrak and encounter the same problem again. So I go back to Bioware Social just to find out that that DLC (and only that one) cannot be downloaded there. A bit more research reveals that the Origin installation fails to put your serial key into the registry and that might cause problems with the DLCs and that there's a file in the Dragon Age folder that will remedy that. Tried it, no installation of Dragon Age: Origins found. Finally gave up and dug up my discs to run the same file from there - success, but still no luck with the DLC. So I manually unpack the DLC from the disc and copy the files to the proper folder and behold! It works. I cursed the whole thing, but acknowledged that Origin support was probably just an afterthought for DA:O and not very polished and I got unlucky.
Now, I've reached Dragon Age 2, not expecting any problems as this game is native to Origin and requires it, with Origin handling all the DLC etc. Start the game, things looking good with quite a lot of quests about DLC stuff starting in the beginning - bit overwhelming for newcomers, I think, but oh well. But then when I reach the actual content, the same problems occur: missing dialogue and item names, missing DLC related quests even. Odd, to encounter the very same problem to say the least. Another round of research (as none of the other solutions for DA:O are available for DA2) and the culprit is revealed: When you want to play the game in a different language than what Origin is set to (in my case: Origin German, Games English), Origin will fail to download some of the DLC-related text and voiceover stuff. Folks at EA are actually unable to properly implement multilinguality. Not only is it not as easily available through a menu as it is in Steam for most games, but the ways they provide don't work properly. The remedy: Change Origin language to the language you want to play the game in. So I set Origin to English, restart and have it repair my installation of DA2. Problem persists. Sigh. Uninstall DA2, reinstall and fetch lunch in the meantime. And then, finally it works as intended and I suspect the same would be true for DA:O DLCs.
Plough EA! Seriously, there's so much half-arsed nonsense and such horrible customer support reluctant to acknowledge and fix problems - there's still plenty of bugs in DA:O, especially in Awakening, not even mentioning the faulty flags for save game import - every time I make the mistake of playing one of their games. Luckily, these days there's not much left in their portfolio that has me even remotely interested beyond Dragon Age. After Command and Conquer and Battlefield have been slaughtered, among others. Will stay away from whatever they release if in doubt and wait for cheap prices for the rare gems - blacklisted for incompetence along with Ubisoft!
Sorry for the only remotely topic-related wall of text. :cheers: