With recent news of DA4 going single-player only, how has your opinion of the games potential change

I'm happy to hear this sort of thing but ultimately no change. I'm playing regardless and offering critiques after the fact. Even if I'm unhappy with the direction Bioware has taken over the past decade, I still find their games to have good value for the coinage.

Havent changed, if its as good as DAI or even better, that'll be great.

Also MP on the side ala MEA & DAI would not hurt at all

Since Inquisition is my favorite game of all time I'd be very happy if it were better.

Id be acceptable if it were as good as Andromeda which is my third favorite game last generation.

While I think the game will be improved by not having bloat in it, you have to ask yourself when this directive came about. It is unlikely they out of the blue decided to ditch multiplayer. How long was multiplayer in development before this directive was given? If it was a short time, then fine. But if they were making it, then decided to just axe it...well, what will they do with all of that work. 

I'm looking at a lot of the comments here, and other threads, and the term "reboot" has come up multiple times in reference to the game now being announced as single-player only. Why do some wish to classify that decision as such? The move from Joplin to Morrison was much more of a reboot because it's design needed to fit the live service scheme, it's being built on Anthems codebase, and BioWare - apparently - scrapped a good portion of what they had been working on. The move to singleplayer-only doesn't sound like it would be that drastic a change. We also don't know exactly how intertwined the live service aspect was with the core game. If it was a cooperative campaign, that'd be one thing. But if it was just daily, weekly, and monthly quests for you to get premium currency towards cosmetics, I don't think that would be so impactful to separate out.

I call Andromeda with swords because if they want to finish it before the ten year anniversary of inquisition that's what they'll have to do with it.

In my opinion this game is designed for a single player experience. I'm in huge favour of these news.

In order to be multi player, the game core requires to be completely different from single player. Pleasing both is like playing human in one of those MMO rpg games. Humans are versatile, choose any class you want and they will do it in a half assed way. Better have a solid single game than a half assed hybrid.

That is how I am feeling as well.  The way I see a lot of the comments is that people have only associated with the bad things they don't like and haven't heard what the developers and publishers have said on the matter.  The way I have interpreted what I have heard from the developers is the premise of a live service is that there is something to keep players engaged with the game and still playing regularly since players drop of fast from a single player game.  The monetization part could always be there, but could take different forms and even be independent of the live service aspect.  So using Mass Effect as an example the live service in the single player could be something like a daily random mission that gives some kind of special rewards or a reward that is on the grinder side of thing.  In the case of Mass Effect 3 it could have been just a small amount of War Assets. Now the monetization is just the DLC and weapon packs that BioWare has always had with their games.  With the idea the longer someone plays the more likely they are going to at least buy the story DLC instead of having about a small attachment rate after a year.

Its sort of the same thing with the Frostbite engine.  It was widely circulated that "it wasn't made for RPGs" and without understanding how a game engine works people have now assumed that Frostbite won't work for BioWare RPGs even if other games have the similar features in them or that they can use a game engine designed for a shooter into one that works for a sports or driving game.

I voted (cautiously) optimistic. I had several playthroughs of DA:O and DA 2 but only one complete DA:I and ME:A because they both suffer from ‘Never mind the quality feel the width’.
If Bioware can make a story with a beginning, middle, end, and no unnecessary filler, then I will be pleased. This does however mean not buying on release and waiting for player feedback.

No Change. There really hasn't been enough info released on DA4 for me to have formed an actual opinion on it's "potential". MP didn't detract from the SP in previous games, so whether this one has it or not I couldn't care less.

I think you are reading way too much into Schrier's comments...given there are other interpretations I have seen and I have even advanced myself...and other interpretations I personally believe about what was going on.  In theory Schrier's previous article on the matter he did report on a couple of different options of what they were thinking about...and contrary to his own claims on the matter...none of them sounded like a full MMO and mostly a SP experience.  

well hoisted on my own patard. Acused you of reading too much into someones words, read too much into yours.