How long before DA4 will Dragon Age Keep be updated?

I think it will get an update only when DA4 will be officially announced (even to just give us players something to do, like prepare our world states.
I wonder if it wil be changed something? I'd love to get the chance to directly sign in and change it from the start menù, it would make everything much more smoot when starting a new game.

I could even see the update dropping in the last 1-2 months leading up to launch, as part of their final marketing push. DA Keep was originally launched ~1 month before DA:I's release.

This may depend on whether they intend bringing her back as a companion you can romance. If so, they will probably ignore the flirting in DAI. After all, players are going to be really annoyed if they finally have dwarf they can romance only for it to be blocked by a minor fling in the previous game. If not, but she does return, then it is only likely to be a passing comment that is of absolutely no relevance to the plot or the new PC going forward, so not worth the programming time to include it in the game. Of course, if the Inquisitor is returning in any major way then may be their relationship will be recorded in the Keep.



Whilst I am not a fan of Adoribull, I think it can be taken as a definite that if the Inquisitor did not romance either of them and Bull turned Tal'Vashoth, then they are an item. The reason being that PW is a fan of Adoribull. Remember that in Trespasser if all these criteria were met, then you got the Adoribull epilogue screens, even if you didn't know they were an item in the main game. Since all the necessary information is already recorded in the Keep, there is no need for an extra tile relating to this.



The fate of the old Arishok in DA2 has already been dealt with in WoT2 and the comic series by David Gaider. Even if he survived and returned to Par Vollen, he was demoted (executed?) for his actions even though he had recovered the Tome of Koslun. Ditto, regardless of what you did with Sten in DAO, he became the new Arishok. So there is nothing needed in the Keep as any decision whether to eliminate him in favour of a completely different Arishok is something outside the control of the Keep. I suppose it is just possible that if you left him in the cage/did not recover his sword, they will assume he is dead. Since it is unlikely that any of the characters involved in DA4 have any prior knowledge or dealings with Sten, the relevance as to whether he is now Arishok is purely for interest only and so his identity in game can be left ambiguous. For example, a codex can say it is rumoured he may have been involved with the events of the 5th Blight, just an additional few lines in his biography, or not as the case may be.



Since some elves had already been shipped out from Denerim alienage before we got there, it is possible that they could include some reference to them. In some ways it would be cool if one of our companions was a survivor of that shipment and their personal quest possibly to repatriate others they know of. So far as Caladrius is concerned, though, I think it can be assumed he is not going to feature, even if he did survive. Easily enough explained away, he fell foul of the vicious Tevinter politics or died as a Venatori following Corypheus.

Now what I am intrigued to discover is the relevance of the Temple of Solassan quest in DAI. This has a tile relating to it in the Keep, when on the face of it, it was just a minor side quest in game with no relevance to the main plot. When I saw it was recorded in the Keep I finally made the effort to collect all those wretched shards so I had legitimately finished this quest, so I really hope whether you did so or not has some importance going forward. Otherwise, why make such a big issue of it in the Keep?

I only expect a few decisions to make their way into the world state factors of any follow-up game, namely the Inquisitor background, Divine, possibly the Solas friendship or romance path and MAYBE the fate of the Seekers. I don’t really expect too much to come out of the Mage/Templar conflict, though an NPC swap and/or flavor dialogue here and there might be there to account for it to a reasonable degree.

I'd love to see the keep update. Especially if they finally fix the tapestry booting you back to the first tiles for Origins every time you back out of a subsection. I hate that with a fiery passion.
Also another Last Court would be nice.

Because the Keep is developed by humans, and those people didn't put the same weight on those choices as you do? They thought the Hinterland cultists were more interesting? They're all romantics who like the idea of helping that young Orlesian couple elope? Who knows, really? There is nothing saying they can't further edit the Keep to record those choices. We don't know what they're planning.

I think it could do with some rework. I can't see any other way to translate the narrative to new game engines.

This doesn't have anything to do with the Keep, though, this is a writer/dev concern. The Keep is just the vehicle by which any of these scripted events play out in a following game, like Connor in Redcliffe. For example, the fate of Sutherland's company is a recorded DAI decision; it's up to the devs as to whether they want to make something of it, or not. The same thing would be true if the Keep didn't exist and we still used saved game import: the information is there; the devs have the option to use it, or not.



To add to this, it's also a way for all players, new and old, to change their world state and see those results in DAI without doing dozens of hours of DAO/2 gameplay just to change a single thing, like the ruler of Ferelden, or the fate of Alistair/Loghain/Morrigan/OGB.

What if some key Solas option depends on whether you chose to stop/redeem Solas? You only need to change ONE tile in the Keep for that.