The Keep should be louder about exporting

[sincere]

I was 8 hours in and almost ready to consider leaving the Hinterlands when suddenly Varric goes "And Carver's doing great" and I'm like, "wtf, Carver is super, super dead." That's how I discovered that my Keep data had not exported and the data I "imported" when I started my game was generic. Why would they even let you "import" a default?

So, starting Dragon Age: Inquisition over...

I'm going with an elf, reluctantly, because the dwarf backstory sounded super cool and I love dwarves, and I'm interested in the qunari just because. (I would never voluntarily roll a human and I paid my dues with Hawke.) But I don't understand the qunari well enough and female dwarves have the option to have beards and I refuse.

Ta-da, that's all my DA:I words so far. I will play this probably for the next like four whole days before KH2.5 comes out and I play that instead.

Comments

[pict]

You deserved it. You horrible, horrible harpy.

[sincere]

Your face deserved it.

I'M BEING GOOD

[pict]

Okay, since you're being good. Have a present. (Spoiler-free, no worries.)

[wishtoshine]

I love those Bioware losers.

[slayerofgod]

Oh yeah, my Facebook feed has been full of various friends complaining about the no import thing. I'm especially confused as to how they screwed this up considering this is the same company who made Mass Effect.

[sincere]

I don't mind the lack of import -- after all, they would basically be punishing themselves for publishing PS4/X1 games if they gave you a mechanism of importing directly from your PS3/360 games because then everyone would want that. I like the idea of the Keep. It takes a while to set up, but it's a very clever way of getting around the next-gen cross-platform stuff.

But in execution, you go in and you say "Here's what I want you to import," and then it saves and you look it over and it remembers your preferences and it's all saved and you go "Hooray" and you close it and you start a game and you say "Import my Keep stuff" and it goes "Okay, I imported it," and then 8 hours later a casual line of dialogue is your only clue that it "imported" completely generic data because there was a very small button off to the side of the Keep that said "Export" and the Keep data that EA totally knows you have is ignored unless you press that button. To correct this problem I literally just had to press a single button -- and then start a completely new game.

And that's frustrating.