Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

Just spitballing here, but if it's anything like what EA implements for the Sims franchise, you could get anything from a pack of cosmetic items to large upgrades to gameplay for free. There's still a ton of additional incrementally designed & priced paid DLC, but the basegame has all the main important features and gets regularly upgraded. TS4 was released around the same time as DA:I in 2014 and will probably be getting content for at least 2 or 3 more years. I always thought it was a waste that Bioware stopped developing for DA:I because I would have bought pretty much anything they put out to expand the world, and even cosmetic stuff if they made some non-weird armors or unlocked the NPC outfits to use for role-play purposes.

Yeah, TS4 is a radically different kind of game, but it's also obscenely successful for a non-sports non-combat game, and has a huge female fanbase (something that DA also has). I wouldn't be surprised if EA is trying to iterate some of that success into their other franchises using similar types of DLC scaling (i.e. both free and paid, with there potentially being free stuff that includes significant improvements other than bugfixes, like the wardrobe and the Golden Nug that were added to DA:I late in development). It could be anything from a new adventuring area, to cosmetics, to adding full-blown romance options to existing NPCs that end up being popular, like say, Lace Harding. I think it would be cool too, if there were an paid DLC that was just for the PC and their LI or BFF with additional romance content and/or emotional payoff.  Say some sort of Murder in Venice plot set in Antiva with a couple of cute cutscenes, dedicated creepy NPCs and a brief mystery to solve that doesn't involve having your mother fridged.