WIN

"- Import issue with Zevran, Alistair and Morrigan (all)"

Umm...Morrigan? Was she supposed to show in DA2?

No but it does record what happened with the Warden. If you went with Morrigan in Witch Hunt Alistair will say you are missing. That's about it.

Are there any flags from GoA ?

Oh..

But didn't they say that there are no flags from WH and Golems. at least at the moment?

Yes but it never appears in DA2. Might appear in DA3 but I highly doubt it. The flag is simply Golems complete y/n
The flags are:

Golems complete y/n
Witchunt complete y/n
Warden Kills Morrigan y/n
Warden leaves with Morrigan y/n

And that's about it. Other imports involve awakening

Sigurn, Velanna, Justice and Oghren have no entry at all. No matter what you do they survive.

Anders recruited y/n
Nathaniel recruited y/n
Nathaniel friend y/n
Vigilance made y/n
The Architecht is alive y/n

Vigilance is in DA2 it's just not implemented yet. Modders have added it. Possible future DLC

I was kinda disappointed how little they referenced the Warden in DA2. I know it's about Hawke and Kirkwall and such, but the Warden was a hero of Ferelden. I would have wanted to see more stuff about him/her, like letters, books, paintings and such..

To be honest, Bio didn't really utilize the import save option that much in DA2...

Biggest problem was after Awakening the Warden was legnedary and important. WE could seriously change this world. Bioware didn't like that and so gave us Warden-lite.

Shepard was legendary after Mass 1. They did that quite well, and Mass 2 utilized the import option very well (imo)..

But then again, I guess DA2 is not a sequel to DAO...side story perhaps...

Yeah DA2 is a Re-Boot. When it wasn't needed. I'm going to love playing a nobody for 2/3rds if the game.

Week 5:

Xbox360 : 26.630
PS3 : 18.489
PC : 10.850

Running Totals:

Xbox360 : 650.611
PS3 : 305.245
PC : 234.929

Yeah, those 2M ain't gonna happen.

Nevermind, it was posted before :)

Seems the free Mass Effect 2 hasn't had any impact. Could it be perhaps that anyone who would be interested in the deal already has the game?

Sure looks like it. Damn, it had no apparent effect whatsoever, the figures keep going down.

Afetr the game released it was obvious it wasn't going to do great in terms of sales, but i kinda always more or less assumed it would turn a decent profit anyway. I'm starting to wonder about that now.

I'm rather happy about the sales. I was worried that it would be a success despite the changes especially on the consoles which would further push Bioware away from the PC. You can still see the thinly veiled insults in what Mike Laidlaw says.

As it stands PC gamers didn't like it and neither did console gamers. I know two people who only play consoles and I persuaded them to try DA:O and they loved it mainly because it was different. These are people who never heard of Baldur's Gate so unlike us they had nothing to compare DA:O to. They were equally appaled at the changes in DA2 and unlike us PC gamers they had the luxury of selling their copies to game stores, which they did further harming DA2's new sales.

The funny thing is the console players complained about exactly the same things we did. Repeated caves, boring quests, muddled plot, spawning enemies and complete lack of choice in the game. Laidlaw can say he simplified the game for console players but the evidence seems to be that the console players liked DA:O as much as we did and all they wanted was a technically better port and a less confusing interface.