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

But that was before Bioware became PC, smiles. 

Someone needs to ASK ABOUT THE LEAK>!

End of the day I'm not saying that this is the decision that is going to make or break DA4 for me; the Inquisitor returning as a playable character remains the big one there.

Why this concerns me is that I have no interest in playing another character that is refined(in the social sense, not the characterization sense) and statesman like and beholden to the perception of others. I want to play a character who is crass, crude, hedonistic, and carefree regarding how anyone views them.

There are brothels in Tevinter. Even if that hadn't been confirmed by other sources, that is something that could be said with absolute certainty, because there are brothels everywhere. By saying that those brothels aren't going to show up in DA4, what the devs are saying is that, with no input from us, our characters are not the type of people who would visit the brothel. They're apparently too good for that.

Some here may think that I'm reading too much into this decision and making assumptions based on nothing. I say I'm displaying basic pattern recognition and deductive reasoning skills.

I already have major trepidation regarding the direction Dragon Age's plot is going based on how DAI and Trespasser leave off that make me think that I'm going to hate the story on a pure plot level. So my interest in playing DA4 was primarily based around the hope that this time around I'd get to play a character the way I actually wanted to play them, in a way I could actually enjoy. While by no means definitive, this is a sign that isn't likely to happen.

Choice. Spirit. 

It’s an overblown issue.

It is beyond me why people keep making the argument that "if there are no brothels the character is just too good for that". One thing doesn't follow another. The existence of brothels is not a moral issue - not on larger scale and not in terms of morality of a character. At best it's a flavor issue. The character may be the most crass, crude, hedonistic and carefree bastard there lived, and still not visit brothel for variety of reasons, including lack of time or circumstances that allow for it. That is it.

And nobody really questions whether there are brothels in Tevinter. Again, I don't understand why this comes around, considering that there are not that many people that are even questioning that - only whether seeing one is really that important, especially when we're discussing it while knowing basically nothing about the game. We know for sure there are brothels in Ferelden and there likely were brothels in Val Royeaux itself. We just didn't happen to see them, while we CAN play an Inquisitor who is a a-hole who picks romances when there's a lot of sex involved so again - not a morality issue.

I think Witcher 3 praise goes deeper than brothels.

Hold it there, chucklenuts. Imshael was a Forbidden One, not a desire demon. That's like comparing paddle boats to aircraft carriers.

Oh, you mean the same CDPR that has considerably toned down all the casual sex Geralt can get, from a title where one can collect titillating cards of women he can shag to a select few in TW3?

Don't you know? The number of brothels available for visit in the game determines its quality.

Not a brothel, multiple brothels where you can have sex with as many people as you can.

Yes and the same CDPR that treated the player like an adult and wasnt afraid to "go there" with themes that Bioware now seems to timid about.

Taking out Brothels is just a minor issue. The bigger issue is Bioware possibly sanitizing Tevinter because they do not want to offend a certain demographics. Despite having the last 3 games give us references to just how offensive of a place Tevinter really is.

So this is less about wanting to see videogame breast and more about if Bioware can tell an adult Dark Fantasy story that shows a lot of dark themes the same way TW3 did.