"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

So it's not a true RPG, right?

Cause in true RPGs you can murder everyone and fuck for money. Or something.

Good. I'm glad they are continuing to not include brothels in the games. Especially in Tevinter where it would be using sex slaves. It's a waste of resources anyway that could go to countless better things. 

Problem is, that it is an intimate moment that is separate from Inquisitor's invitation of Solas to dance in the ballroom.

I understand gameplay limitations, but that still doesn't change the fact that we can still ask Solas to dance and he declines by bringing up that it wouldn't be well received. If it wasn't a concern in the story, we could've talked about something else. After all, Solas just revealed that he revels in atmosphere of the Game, so that in itself opens a whole plethora of potential dialogue options, yet the thing they've decided to bring up is that dancing with elven apostate where everyone can see it would be an issue (which, even disregarding Solas's potentially considerable experience with court intrigue, is still sort of a no-brainer, really).

"Dark" seems to be a very arbitrary label. Because I can't really see how DAI's story is not full of stuff that's not just dark, but bleak. Every organization, no mater how noble, getting corrupted and its intentions twisted and warped, us fighting the faction that was presented in first game as heroes, treading the thin line between truth and lies that ensure that people join our cause, saving the world and the world slowly turning against us and so on...

And no - a regular plot for video game doesn't usually gives you a companion to get to know and perhaps even befriend or romance only to reveal that he's on a mission that he may destroy the world. And we don't even know what we'd have to do in order to stop him... or whether we even want to stop him?

How could Hawke have survived the first three (or more) years without the Blooming Rose?

My Hawkes never used the services provided by the Rose and they did just fine. 

I am not missing this point, no. For me it depends on what we are getting, not on what we are not getting.

1. A slave-holder society without slaves would very interesting... (No.)
2. Not only slaves can be prostitutes.
3. Not a waste of resources: may be a mood element of a corrupt city/society.

+1 NOT mandatory... 

Don't be judgemental!
Carver used as well...

Hmmm. I suppose it makes a certain degree of sense. It's a rare privilege for the wealthy elite, makes sense in an extremely patriarchal and conservative society as Tevinter, not available for the rabble. So I support their reasoning and so long as it makes sense lore wise I can live visiting Tevinter and not have an option to visit a brothel.

SWTOR is still the best game for me in this respect in some stories, because it allows you to play what you wish from a variety of encounters ranging from a casual smile/wave at someone attractive, infatuation to serious love story with someone who is not your designated future spouse. Trooper story in particular makes a complex moral choice around someone who might have been your lover, or, in case of my Trooper someone he had feelings for but stayed loyal to his One True love, and her life was weighed against the life of multiple people he did not know, and his orders....

On another character, I did not like my designated LI, so I played through a long and awesome planetary story like with Reyes instead.

Replicating feelings of attraction and lighter side of the character is not a bad thing.

It does not have to involve frequent brothel visits, you do not have to hit every flirt in existence, etc.

Also brothel on its own does not contribute to dark atmosphere. In DA2, brothel scenes are comic if anything, while dark murders happen in the confines of the family homes, or within a proper courtship ritual.

I am going to leave the topic of romances for a male PC and how satisfying they maybe alone, because I frankly felt that the male options were far, far more satisfying than the female PC ones thanks to Dorian (so I basically just like you liked the option reserved for the same sex romance more than the ones available to my gender), but they all pale in comparison to DA2 romances, and Swtor options for male Smuggler and Agent imo.

Again, it is not what specifically will not be included, it is what will be.