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

I'm not saying that the only way DA4 will be any good is if they have full on sex scenes like the Witcher. ( I've said before in this thread, that only one Hawke out of all my PTs ever regularly used a Brothel. And even then, I could have just skipped the actual payment and just said he went. But the building needed to be there for me to bother with the whole idea at all.)

What I'm saying is that the avoidance of brothels worries me about the sort of Role Playing Opportunities that we'll have in DA4. I feel like in DAO and DA2, there were a couple of ways to handle even small situations. Now there are heavily controlled outcomes of all major decisions and few, if any, different resolutions to small decisions.

Why CAN'T I EXECUTE SAMSON? His crimes were JUST AS BAD AS ERIMUND'S. I'd rather him have jumped off a cliff like Calpernia than have them chain my hands like that. And when I play my pro death evil Quiz, I already know in advance from experience I won't get to cut off everyone's head. The axe should have been an option for every single judgement.

And so, we have so much murder knifing in DAO that it's absurd. WE have a mixed amount of absurd and compelling murder knifing in DA2. We get One? Instance of murder knifing? in DAI, excluding formal (limited number) executions (there is a second, but it's LOCKED BEHIND A ROMANCE, of all things.)

We have a brothel and several casual sex encounters in DAO. We have a brothel and two? casual sex encounters in DA2. We have NO brothel and 1 casual sex encounter in DAI.

Obviously, I am not the only one to see the trend?

No, I don't. Plainly because neither of the games presents the same story and ignoring that fact does everybody a disservice.

Like seriously, I don't see how the precise numbers of how many times we can knife someone or have casual sex says much about strength of the story or RP opportunities. In fact, it seems rather silly.

It represents the thoroughness by the creators to offer multiple branches of story per encounter. Making replaying the game with multiple personalities a joy, as I discover more and more about the game each time I play.

Other than the Romance Options, Mages vs Templar (ally vs conscript versions) and who rules Orlais--- what else is there to replay for? If I cannot express the worst and best of humanites qualities in the same game? Oh yes. I have gotten some enjoyment from portraying different religions, since Faith is such a strong theme.  Atheist/Agnostic, Andrastian, Dalish are also three roles that get support. 

There is also no ability to intimidate, persuade, or lie. Other things I enjoyed quite thoroughly in DAO.

You said before I was conflating, but I admit, even in my original post, that the potential lack of a brothel worries me. I liked DAI. I do not want DAI Part 2.

The more and more Dragon Age goes on, the more and more Linear it gets. I don't want the only freedom I get to be who among the pre chosen  by the writers LIs I get to bang that game. 

I remembered it, since it's kind of funny.

I'm sorry, but I can't wrap my mind around the concept that murdering people or having casual sex is supposedly so important to replayability as if there were no other or better ways to express multiple personalities...
You can? You just can't express it by randomly and gratuitously murdering people left and right. That doesn't really inspires confidence in someone being the one hope to deal with a threat to the world. Your companions and allies can leave your side for less than not controlling the urge to shiv people.
You CAN intimidate, persuade or lie, especially when you unlock all the appropriate perks for it.
The presence of brothels or their lack doesn't bother me at all - I'm just not a person that hinges my feelings on the game on brothels, given about a zillion other, more important things I'd love to see and which themselves can bring plethora of replayability options all on their own.

Many of those will depend on the story... that we don't yet know anything about. Like I said somewhere earlier, EVEN IF we end up spending a lot of time in Minrathous, there's no way of telling if the story will even let us visit districts where they're located. What if they're already destroyed or taken by Qunari? What if they're sectioned off, because they fell into hands of rebellion of slaves? What if they fell into the ground because of some magical conundrum (there are deep, mysterious catacombs under the city)?

Since we don't know any details of the game, worrying about the presence of something that was never anything other than minor and inconsequential to the story at large seems unproductive, if not there to seed unwarranted negativity.

Considering that we will be dealing with a Qunari/Tevinter war I imagine we'll find plenty of morally ambiguous and reprehensible situations in the upcoming game. So I'll happily forego the chance to visit a brothel for the chance to kill Qunari.

Actually, we are in an odd situation when DA4 is not confirmed, but we have a huge tread about the atmospheric importance of brothels where it might take place to a character we might want to RP.

As ever, BSN, I prostrate myself in thy mighty presence.

All we have is one word from a cat.

At this point, I would be happy with just about anything. A blurry picture of some random piece of vague concept art.

Something else from that neat little red book, perhaps.

I laughed pretty hard.

Regardless of what started the thought process, the rest of the concerns are there. I pointed out a trend. 

It's a bit more complicated than that, actually:

I liked it because it was fun.