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

That's actually a reasonable point.

Not that Thedas is 'set' in any real time period of our world, but back in a time analogous of Thedas the tavern seems to have often been a 'multi-purpose' "adult entertainment" location.  So yes - a living breathing tavern with all that that entails would be good, even if there isn't a story reason to go there.

Now that I say it, though, I can just imagine that Wicked Grace becomes a playable mini-game.... 

Yep - content that some players might never see.  That is what makes an 'open world' feel real.  None of it necessarily important to the plot of the game, it's just...there.

I'm pretty sure this isn't the case. Taverns were always dangerous and disgusting places offering their beds to lower class people (I'm pretty sure they were only allowed to serve foods to paying guests) and the nobles would always stay at a friends house when travelling. The idea of a huge food hall with plenty of merriment is, I'm pretty sure, a fantasy thing

Just because you don't like it doesn't mean that people should not like it because you don't like it. And prostitutes get PAID for sex so it's a win win situation for the client and the prostitute. People give sex for free but paying for sex is a no-no??? 😕😟

Expecting brothels in North American productions in 2017. Especially from a Canadian one? Literally the most sjw country, in the most sjw city in the continent? Uwotm8. Only westerners who have the balls to do that in 2017 are in Europe or are all indie. I actually just got done playing an rpg that had prostitutes and a legit portrayal of life in the slums from a French developer I believe. Don't ever expect that from a triple A American/Canadian studio though. Bethesda also has gotten a lot more PC since the likes of Morrowind. Inb4 Rockstar, spoiler alert they're British. Times are different, the culture and what's acceptable is different. 

With some people, you would think Bioware is doing this:

In Flotsom, Witcher 2, the Tavern had a second floor that was rented out to a Brothel Madam for use.
the main floor was for drinking.
The basement was for Gambling on Fist Fights and a few more rooms for the Brothel ladies to rent.

I think when actual guests wanted to stay and pay for a whole room, they would just repurpose a brothel room for temporary hotel type use.

In this way, we have a multipurpose building offering lots of role play opportunities and frankly, it was the liveliest building in the whole town. the rest of the buildings, most you couldn't enter, were where Merchants and Nobles/Leaders lived.

Ah, I took "tavern" to mean "inn", my mistake.

The Middle Ages were actually quite dirty and grim. Towns in particular were quite, quite fragrant cities especially. Think of it this way, the only form of transportation other than by foot was by horse, horses have to shit, that shit has very little places to go. There was shit everywhere in the middle ages, which gets trekked in to houses, and stuck to clothes. It was not allowed to empty chamber pots out of windows, yet people did. Rotten food and animal tidbits were left to rot in the street. That's not mentioning hygiene (which was poor) and that some people thought bathing was unhealthy for you (which to be fair if you saw the state of the Thames at the time, for example, you'd probably think so too.) 

And yeah, it was grim. Let's forget crime for a second and talk about health and food. People of the Middle Ages relied entirely on nature. A few seasons of poor harvest could mean famine with multitudes dying. Shit everywhere means disease and no sophisticated medicine meant no defense against airborne diseases which result in multitudes dying. You were lucky if your child reached the age of 7. Then you get to violence of which there was plenty, and if you get caught punishments were horrible. It's a modern conception that "jail" is used as a punishment, back in the "old days" jail was used as a place to store people until they were punished which often ended up being some form of torturous activity.

There's a romanticism of the Middle Ages because people of today, who live in comparative luxury, have difficulty conceiving the day to day struggle life was back then and how bad it actually was.

The Bankside Stews, for example, were notorious in the Middle Ages. Stews were, of course, what brothels were called back in the day. And in 1161 Henry the 2nd would regulate that industry:

- stewholders were to be married and the premises to be used as brothels only

- it was forbidden to sell food and drink

- pregnant and married women and women of religion were forbidden to offer their services at stewhouse

- the wife of a stewholder was not allowed to offer herself or to entice customers

- stewholders were not allowed to hold a customer against his will or to seize his goods

- the women of the stews were forbidden to wear an apron which was considered a sign of respectability

- they were forbidden to grab a man or his clothing as he passed or to obstruct him in any way. This restricted soliciting, the woman was supposed to sit passively by the door or by the window and to wait for the customer take the initiative

- a prostitute was not allowed a paramour. This would limit the practice of pimping

- a woman was to be evicted from the stewhouse if she was pregnant, suffered from ”the burning sickness”, married or a woman of religious orders

- there was to be a quarterly inspection by officials and if it was discovered a woman was held there under duress, she would be free to leave.

These regulations would be pointless if brothels were not a thing. And while travel boomed in the renaissance and inns exploded in popularity during that time, they most certainly existed during the Middle Ages.

I understand that resources are finite and that there is a limit to what can practically be done.

That doesn't mean I don't want them to push that limit as far as they fucking can, though.

I'll be happy with Bioware if they just include an atmospheric, vibrant major city. I think I've been pretty outspoken over my overwhelming disappointment with VR in Inquisition

I think the entirity of DA4 should be a musical. I can picture the opening number right now.

There goes the slaver with his slaves, like always.
Making their lives a living hell!
They protest their abuse
But it's never any use
In the squirming vipers' nest of Minrathous!