Live and let Live Service

^ what the Lizard said. I'd take DAI's style of content over -anything- else.

Well so far my new nipple stapler is turning out to be a huge waste of money.

I'd want a mix of these like in FFXV or Xenoblade 2. You get small, frequent DLCs like a handful of quests or special items every month or 2, with a huge addition that gives you a new area to play in/new characters to use every 4 months or so.

I think and want one of two forms of content.

1. That you have...well esentially large pieces of DLC but released piecemeal. 'Episodically' in other words so we can get frequent dumps of content but only make it a DLC. I suppose if Trespasser was released in three parts but that is probably a bad example.

2. Small, infrequent pieces of DLC, a quest here and there, and then a bigger expansion released for like 15 bucks or so.

I mean I imagine they will have the weekly quests or special pieces of lootboxes or something that people can do too from time to time so hopefully, now that Ubisoft is leading the way, DA 4 might not have ANY multiplayer at all. One can dream.

Oh no, anything but the new AC formula. The maps feel empty and "exploring" is just a tedious checklist. Of course the tied-to-progress microtransactions would be right up EA's alley. Well fk that, this should be a singleplayer game without always online, invade others game and all the fancy multi bs.

Bioware's strength lies with characters and story. That’s it, build on that. Give me a bigger DA2 with DAI graphics and DAO atmosphere. After that drop a Trespasser (length, content) type of dlc on a 6-8 months interval for a $20-ish something price. Maybe a Witch Hunt here and there if it's a smaller event. This way they don't have to rely on other media to fill in the blanks between games.

Staple those nips henny!

At this point I just want the base game to be good enough, and for there to be a gay KISA..beyond that I'm pretty unhyped about the game till I hear a lot more information.

The sad thing is there was a time I'd of totally done that, but now I'm more out to just play something else. 

As long as the initial offering is substantial enough, I can live with all of those options. After all, it's not as if I can't ignore a "mission of the week" or a "community event". I've been doing that in Anno 2070 and it presents no problem. However, I am concerned that additions don't feel like part of the game. I recall this being a problem in POE2:Deadfire. It wasn't that the additions weren't good on their own, but they were set in completely separate locations and about one of them I didn't feel the protagonist had any reason to be there. So: give me new quests, but also integrate the rationale for doing them into the main story if you can. In DAI "Jaws of Hakkon" felt most naturally integrated and "Descent" didn't. A continuation of the main story is of course fine, as long as it doesn't force you to lose in several areas at once like Trespasser did.

Yeah, I wasn't crazy about the game either, but I thought it implemented live services fairly well, all things considered.

Large & infrequent would be the best in my book, give me a massive single-player campaign with lots of replayability & I won't even notice the time between content drops.

Or, as Hrungr suggested, the AC:O route, it's pretty much un-invasive, just a notification when you fire up the game that a new [insert powerful enemy] is available & that's about it.

So something like that in my opinion.

Large, infrequent is my favourite, but after playing Assassins Creed Odyssey and Fallout 76 there are other ones I'd be happy to have. The timed missions with significant rewards in ACO are a lot of fun and small, frequent changes are good because a dev can adapt or introduce things that players want more quickly. I can't really see premium currency coming to DA, but you never know.