Thank you! It brings a lof of peace to my mind knowing the import bugs won't affect DAI. I still wish something could be done about the WH import bug but I can live with Keep allowing me to make the world-state I want.
I double checked the most authoritative sources I know on this topic, (since no one involved with the current beta can speak publically.)
Here's what they had to say...
Extract from Mark Darrah's BioWare Blog entry from Aug 2013, announcing the Dragon Age Keep:
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"What about actually importing your save games? We are continuing to investigate ways in which save files from previous games could be used to populate the initial world state of the Dragon Age Keep. We’ll provide more information on this in the months to come.
An additional benefit offered by moving to the cloud is being able to fix issues in plot logic, which historically we have not been able to do because of client side complexity or platform holder limits. Under the hood, the Keep has a logic validator which ensures you’ll always have a valid world state free from errors and conflicts.
Choices in our games are immense, and on occasion subtly perceived. In some cases, the consequences of decisions you’ve made in a past game won’t reveal themselves until some future story. Handling all these permutations is complex. Really complex. Tracking all possible prerequisites and potential knock-ons, even just to create the simple acknowledgement of a choice is very detailed — and prone to error.
As an example, an import from DAO to DA2 brought across something in the order of 600 different data points, most requiring complex logic solving to answer correctly the question of “how did the player settle this choice at the end of the game. As a result, some current save imports are buggy, which is our fault, and something we’re committed to fixing. Permanently. The Keep allows us to do just that. Users of the Keep won’t have to suffer with these types of logic inconsistencies any longer."
(Emphasis added.)
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And there's: GamerMD83's Dec 2013 PAX Info interview with Fernando Melo about the Dragon Age Keep.
Bottom line:
I think they're finding that actually importing saves from the previous games is really hard because of the inconsistencies that were allowed to creep in at various points, and they are NOT going to go back and reengineer the original games. So maybe you'll be able to "import and tweak", but I doubt it.
Thank you for the info! I think it would outragous to request bioware to go back and reengineer their games so I agree with you in that regard. Looks like only time will tell what will happen and I think that Keep is a great way of customizing a world-state. I personally hope that theres a lot of emphasis on the degree of customizablility unlike the Mass Effect Genesis counterpart, where only the major descions we customizable. Thanks again for the help and insight.
