I hope we can for throuples in this game

Throatjobs? I rather like my games less explicit and more innocent.

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I remember BioWare saying that they were interested in doing this at some point, but due to as mentioned it being a coding nightmare the only feasible way for it to work is if both of the others are in a relationship already or will always enter a relationship.

The average choice and consequence in BioWare games should not be hard to code, i.e. something like Save the Chargers or Save the Dreadnought. It's a binary choice, the flip of a switch, and as a result the Chargers disappear and Bull may betray you later or not. Those just become a bugger if you try to drag them with you into the next game because then you  have many switches from many such quests in previous games which in my opinion is not worth the effort.

Romances however have a whole sequence of conversations and quests during the course of one game that may influence the outcome i.e. many such switches, and if the protagonist were to romance two people at the same time you'd either have to account for any combination of this series of switches - what if one likes you but not the other at different stages with all the necessary dialogue to go with that etc. - or just simplify the whole thing somehow to get rid of that added complexity.

Caveat: coding anything can become (needlessly) convoluted if your code base deteriorates enough into spaghetti.

This is unlikely to happen, even dao didn't include polyamorous relationships, and they didn't really worry much about giving players a great deal of freedom in their choices as it was the first game in the franchise, so they probably didn't think much about the save/import function. You could technically use a flaw in the game mechanic to end up in romance in Dao, but the story doesn't make sense (none of your companions will be fine with the warden having a polyamorous relationship with other companions; even Zevran won't like that you're leading others on), and they removed the option of romancing multiple companions at the same time from Keep. Bioware is already struggling to incorporate existing options and frequently has to disregard the consequences of choices made by following the same linear path. An excellent example is Leliana, who pretty much always ends up as the same person in the same place with the same role and pretty much the same backstory. Romance her; it makes little difference; befriend her; it makes almost no difference; harden her or leave her unhardened; don't recruit her or force her to leave; the outcome is about the same; kill her; well, she is resurrected, and she is pretty much the same person in the same role. She is almost always set on the same linear path (with minor variations), regardless of the realistically significant impact of your choice on her life. This is often a reoccurring theme with choices. The more they pull it off, the less plausible the setting or story is and the less satisfying your choices are (because they don't really matter because it never or rarely makes any major or significant difference in the world or story). As a result, it appears that since Origins approach is to limit the number of paths you can take while still allowing you to roleplay characters, so there isn't too much branching. For example, all divines are, to varying degrees, pro-mage divines who either place mages in positions of power, loosen circles, or abolish them entirely. If you had access to extremes in choosing the divine like pro-templar Arlic or Lambert, who want either tranquil mages or significantly increased restrictions on mages in circles, and pro-mage Leliana, who wants to abolish circles, it would be difficult to bring the story or world into a linear path; you would have to branch the world or story so that each such divine player could choose significantly to stay within plausible deniability.

Now you're possibly asking how large-scale decisions like choosing the divine relate to smaller scale decisions regarding romancing two companions. The problem is that Bioware, at least in the case of Dragon Age, loves cameos and reintroduces previous characters in new games and products. Because their games use save/choice import from previous games, implementing such characters (particularly in any significant role or event) will be more difficult to pass credibly. In terms of products outside of games that have canon save import, there are issues resulting from save import that are carried into the games. Perhaps now question is, how? Simply put, those products frequently involve characters from games that you can impact in significant ways in those games, even killing them outright, and some of them play a crucial role in events of those EU stories, while events during those are frequently referenced in games or/and are significant influences on or even outright causalities of events in the game.For an example (spoilers from Asunder), in Asunder Wynne (who could be killed in Origins at three different points in the game), a major role is played in the events leading up to her death, including transferring her spirit into Evangeline to resurrect or revive her at the cost of her own life. How is that relevant? The problem is that Evangeline is always alive in DAI, even if you import your choices with Wynne dead in DAO. Cole mentions that Wynne (Rhyses mother) died for the Templar that he loved (Evangeline). So I think they messed up in DAI and failed to account for the eventuality of a player killing in DAO. Given all this, they will likely try to keep complexity down by limiting the number and/or degree of difference in choices as much as they can without jeopardizing the story too much, so they don't make things too complex for themselves in the future. 

There is also Charter and Tessa.

Get.  Out.

I don't find the notion that just because some people might not like one or both potential Love Interests in a hypothetical threesome, then it shouldn't even be considered particularly compelling. Pretty much all Bioware LIs have haters for whatever they may or might not have provided. I realize some character archetypes will be more familiar, and thus safer for most customers. But if DA:D's writers aren't going to explore *any* new romance options beyond what they've already done, I'm less inclined to be interested.

Oh, and to the notion that such LIs would steal a slot from other types, the writers would be "depriving options" to someone, somewhere no matter what they do.

I do agree that an already established couple that invites the protagonist to join would be simpler in the long run. As previously stated, PATHFINDER: KINGMAKER allowed players to romance only one or both, so it can be done.

Eugh, I'm not interested in them devoting too much time to boinky boinky. How about interesting characters with well written arcs?

Already been done, how do you think humans came about.