Dragon Age Keep: Update, Replace, Ignore

I think the best way would be an optional 'story so far' checklist you click at the start of the game itself.

I really like the Keep myself. They put a tremendous amount of work into it, and I think it'd be a shame if they didn't keep it (and continue to update it).

We need something, and... it already exists. If they want to give it a little freshening up for the new game - sure.

If, at some point in the distant future they no longer wanted to host it, then I'd hope we'd get an offline version. That could be a simple checklist app.

Yeah, they need to add something for flirting with Harding, especially since it's referenced in Trespasser. Also 'did Sera get together with Dagna?' They could either add a 'were Iron Bull and Dorian fucking?' tile as well, or treat it as the default state if both of them are alive and neither was romance by the player.

They could of course ignore that relationship completely, but that seems unlikely given that Patrick Weekes is one of the original Adoribull shippers. I don't expect huge amounts of reactivity, but I do think that we'll get a chance to interrogate Dorian about his love life at some point and he'll have options for 'yes, the rumours are true, I'm with the Inquisitor' and 'yes, the rumours are true, I'm with that qunari mercenary captain' as well as brushing you off if neither thing happened.

IIRC those are the only things that change what happens in Trespasser that don't already have a tile in the Keep and can't be inferred from other tiles. Maryden's love life has several different states, but all of them are dependent on decisions that are already in there.

I think an offlin eversion o fth ekeep w ecan download would do I think. Keeping the keep on servers tha tnered to b emaintained s people can keep using i tcould ge texpensive ove rtim eespecially if Bioware or EA god forbid decided to call time on the series. I'm not saying it will happen yet but it could and possibly will happen someday. Creating an offline keep would allow thos eof us who enjoy it t okeep playing the series taking our saves with us as we go much like we have done with the  ME trilogy. I think those of us who bough these games and all their DLC's would appreciate the option of continuing to play these great games even if Bioware and EA decide they no longer wish to make them. They have after all done something similar by releasing the Legendary Edition in that it's not just a remaster but also they took out all the MP elements and and galactic readiness stuff so we can play the whole ME trilogy and DLC's completely offline pretty much so in tha tsense Bioware and EA no longer have to touch it anymore. It's moer that we would still need an option for transferring our saves from DAO and DA2 into Inquisition and Dreadwolf tha twould work in the long term. Unless Biowaer and EA are happy to maintain the servers the Keep is being kept on for ever and a day which I guess they won't be then it's likely at some point we will need an alternative. I personally feel the sooner one is put in place the better.

Yeah I'm not asying it's bad as i tdoes give us a way for if we'rew doing a complete series run a means in which t oimpor tour worldstates into Inquisition given we cant just stick our DA2 saves in But longer trem do they wqant to keep maintaining it and what happens when they stop. I experienced a period where the Keep was down and I had to put my playthrough on hold untli it was back up again so I could put my worldstate into Inquisition which was annoying as I wanted to just go in and play on from where I left off in DA2. S oI think long term there does need to be a offline version of the keep or an alternative way to carry our saves through each game as we play

I like the Keep a lot. I'd prefer for it to be updated and kept, but I would love an offline version to use directly in game, something to be selected before starting the game, an option in the main menù, or at least a rapid access without needing to pick up pc or phone to get the world state I want to play.

I think this is likely what they will do since PW was so invested in this romance. It is by far the easiest way to flag it going forward. However, it is hardly likely to be that important other than Dorian perhaps referencing it in dialogue with the new PC. The same is true of Sera and Dagna, which will be even less relevant unless either of them is to appear in the game. I think the flags were more important to the epilogue to Trespasser than anything else. Since they gave 3 screens devoted to the Dorian/Bull romance and only one to the Dorian/Inquisitor, I think that was sufficiently covered there.

As for Harding flirting with the Inquisitor, I don't think they would see it as an official romance and unless either of them feature in the game, why bother updating the Keep? Would people really want to be denied the opportunity to romance Harding because they had an understated, chaste relationship in DAI?

I would favour using the Keep because our major choices in each game have been recorded there. Those that weren't were obviously not considered relevant to the narrative going forward. I question some of the minor decisions that were included, such as whether or not we chose to save Crestwood and the Temple of Solassan, but perhaps the latter will have some bearing on the plot going forward. My main problem will be how they chose to interpret my choices. With DA2 I said that I didn't support Anders' action, because it showed an exploding Chantry and I thought it referred only to that decision, but on investigating the resulting dialogue it would seem that indicating I did not support Anders meant I didn't support any of his drive to free mages, which was not true in the case of the majority of my Hawkes. This explained why the dialogue I got, didn't seem chime with their character. When I changed the Keep to show I supported Anders, I got far more appropriate dialogue that reflected their sentiments about mage freedom. So I ignored the misleading picture and altered my other Hawkes accordingly.

I would imagine the decisions from DAI are going to be more relevant to the plot, if at all, than those from earlier games but I would still prefer the Keep to just ticking a few boxes at the beginning of DAD.

Honestly, I'm shocked at the mere suggestion of replacing it with a little checklist box with no consideration to the story or your character. 
It is best to keep it, update it or replace it with something similar if necessary.

Update the Keep, imo. So far it's worked well for Inquisition, so I don't see why they can't continue to use it going forward
'course that also means updating the "story so far" narrated by Varric

I like The Keep and just want them to keep it updated.

I am all for trying to export The Keep to an offline version that is baked into the character creator even if it means if the risk of bad import variables and mistakes that might not get fixed. For that could be a one time deal that they develop an interpreter that takes the online version and just uses that in the game, it might not be possible though. I don't see a save import like they did in the past happening again there were a lot of bugs and issues that way.