What would you accept for a "better" DA4?

Thinking about DA2, the expanse of time allows you to develop a character a lot differently. I'm not sure they made as much of it as they could but the implementation of quests over the years was something I enjoyed and felt 'natural' to me. I found myself not thinking as much about approval and more just doing what felt right. Aveline wasn't my favourite character but having the years pass and her change both professionally and personally with time is a good example.

In an ideal world a mix of side quest material with your companions, that draw you further into the world and the Inquisition style content would be good. If that limits the number of companions available so be it but perhaps having a Divinity OS style 'henchman' list might give people increased gameplay options and allow anyone who dislikes the main companion pool to do something different.

So, I choose fewer voices and smaller world. As nice as the options of voices is it does feel a bit extravagant and in most cases I ended up using the default voice anyway. As for a smaller world, as long as there's variety it could even be a bonus. I also wouldn't mind cutting down race choices from four to three (maybe even two!) if it made it possible for different origins again. As for companions... it's my favorite part, but I could definitely accept having something like two mages, two rogues, and three warriors and then two "advisors". Romances are honestly one of my favorite parts, so I wouldn't want to lose out on that, but I do feel four options just for straight females was a bit too generous - if 3/3/3 is possible that would be great.

Fewer voice actor choices for PC - it's it's the only thing I'm ready to accept. I don't want smaller world but I want more longer story with intrigues and unexpected plot twists, that would cover every corner of this big world, forcing the player to explore, to solve puzzles, look for new allies and enemies and move forward in the story. The big world is not so bad as long as story involves every part of this world.
I love DA-I very much, but I must admit that the main story was very short (too short!)
And Player-sexual romances - please, please NO!  

And hilariously mean if you just hand him over. Like wow, what an asshole lol

Well, assuming that there even is a single player campaign, which is by no means certain, and assuming that the game even has any companions having a smaller world is a total no brainer.

These big Bioware semi-open worlds, consisting of huge unlinked areas might look good, but I'm certainly not alone in struggling with burn out and boredom after hours and hours of shlepping over miles of terrain, constantly battling my way through respawning creatures in order to fetch a pristine boar spleen to an NPC in a hut on the other side of the map, and then repeating the same thing fifty thousand times until it becomes a meaningless blur.

Give me a tight, relatively linear experience; but a well-crafted linear experience with tonnes of attention to detail within the environment. Make side quests tie in to the main plot in an organic manner - for example, if the main plot is to destroy the Wogarbullie Poohahs, have most of the side quests based around gathering intelligence on the nature of Wogarbullie Poobahs, and discovering weapons to combat them - along with a few more fun, humourous or leftfield quests thrown in... and don't forget those companion quests!

*Sigh* I know I'm wasting my time though. I doubt anything will change. The bioware we have now is not the same Bioware who made KOTOR, Mass Effect and DA:O. Those guys have mostly moved on. Instead we have an EA subsidiary, and one whose main goal is too look at what's trendy in other game franchises, and copy it with a view to making as much cash as humanly possible - hence the whole "games as live service" thing that was revealed earlier.

I fully expect DA:4 to be a multiplayer-only looter shooter, where players are put into some sort of matchmaking lobby, before being flown to a location on a back of a gryphon, and engage in horde mode combat for points which can be spent on loot - with an option to shortcut the whole process via a cash shop offering powerful pay to win items, and services such as instant level boosts, loot boxes etc.

Not that I'm cynical or anything.....

That isn‘t real. When they hire more people they don‘t have to do That. They make it because they have made fals decisions. Dragon age 4 would have been finished When MEA and anthem haven‘t had Problems.

I don't agree i need cinematics. At lesst for the romance and story turns. Corypheus on the hill is importend.

Sorry, but for me the story of Pillars of Eternity is boring and so "I am walking through an area and i don't know what i do here." I played it two times and both times i musst stop playing because nothing touched or excited me. Please bioware no.

Then people should play witcher and don't care for DA. Because that isn't DA at all. And to Change DA you will lose a lot of Customers who don't play such games. Then i would spend my money on other things but not in videogames. And i thing they want my money.