Did some EA employee bang your girlfriends or something?

The central figurehead behind Origins was Dan Tudge. EA's VP in 2011. Google it fuckhead.

So you can't have any kind of sane discussion without resorting to childish insults.

Read Stigs Post above yours. EA is an industry parasite. The buy companies suck the life out of them until they exist only as hollow name brands to exploit.

I also have no idea why you keep harping on about corporate sycophant VPs like they are contributors to good games.

Great Designers like Brent Knowles (BG2/NWN/Jade Empire/DAO) are what make good games, not corporate VPs.

That is a non sequitur.

DRM status of a few old games, doesn't change the fact that EA has an extensive history of acquisition followed by destruction.

EA buys failing or underfunded companies and provides them with money and stability. If EA hadn't have purchased Bioware it would've gone bankrupt and shut down years ago. EA isn't killing brands, it's buying brands that are near death and trying to rejuvenate them and make a profit. Ultimately this fails sometimes, because some companies that get bought out are too dysfunctional. Luckily, that's not the case with Bioware. Bioware is still going strong and will probably break sales records with the new Mass Effect. .

And hey if you really don't like EA, then don't buy games they publish like Dragon Age: Origins. It's as simple as that.

Evidence to support your assertion that Bioware was going bankrupt.

Bioware made great games when they inspired great people that are now driven from the company. Bioware was beloved by fans because of the great games, and close connection and support. Developers and Designers would regularly post on the NWN forums, years after the game was released.

Under EA, the Bioware name and legacy IP will have value to exploit for a while, but Bioware is hollowed out of the veterans that made truly great games like David Gaider, and Brent Knowles. The Bioware forums were shut down. Because support beyond 90 days doesn't add to the bottom line on a spread sheet.

EA doesn't make great games. EA is a hollow sequel house. Trust me. I won't buy anything from EA going forward. DAO was developed before EA started dismantling Bioware.

Dragon Age: Origins was pretty must finished when EA took over. It had been in the works for years.
Do you even hear yourself? EA isn't doing any kind of charity, you know. They charge money for games. They don't give them away. I doubt any gamer is actually grateful to any developer. They aren't "allowing" anything. They have found a new store to sell DA:O. That's it.

So, about half way through DA2, I think. Repeating environments/maps are a thing. Not a lot of locations. Railroaded plot, no real choices. Having said all that. It is still fun. I am having a better time with it, than I thought I would. Another six months of dev time, would have made a huge difference, I think.

Dragon Age Inquisition is nothing like NWN2, it is more like a politic simulation with action combat. There is a story wrapped around it, but you will soon lose track. More important is to do TASKS and more TASKS to complete an area and build up your keep to gain more levels and get better at doing TASKS. The next important thing are your companions and their TASKS*.

NWN2 and Dragon Age Origins is more about talking to NPC, gather information, tricky Speech-Checks** if you prefer to play a more social character or you go just brute force like an action RPG. Choices have consequences here.

This does not mean, it is a bad game. It looks gorgious, the music is brilliant, the voice over great. Like many others, I love the character of Sera, "cool, in'it?"***. The combat system needs to get used to, but is interesting to say the least. Yet alone that the default zoom in dialogues is so far away, it is like playing an isometric game, you see the main feature of the game is not story, though.

*TASKS means, kill 10 this, kill all around this area, get this from there, bring this to there. Without much meaning to the rest of the story.
** I don't remember any speech-check in Inquisition with consequences. Except for your companions dialogue, do you want to have s** -> No!. Some levels later, after doing more of the companions tasks, do you want to have s** -> Sure!
*** she is like I hoped the teenage daughter of Harkon in Skyrim to be, but instead we got some childish brat. I never understood what people older than maybe 12 liked about her. Where Sera is not childish at all, she sometimes makes you laugh at times and always keeps you thinking...

p.s. Dragon Age Inquisition is much more casual than Dragon Age Origins or Neverwinter Nights. I usually research games before I start playing, make plans for my character etc. in DA:I it does not really matter. If you are really dedicated to the overall Dragon Age Saga (I-III) and/or also read the books, then you will enjoy the frequent links between the games and how unique occurrences from previous titles are mentioned in the way you played it (Only if you use the Origin version and have it linked online to the keep of course, which you have to do anyway in DA:I).

DA: Origins: Streamlined Baldur's Gate. This means easy to learn and master, but missing some depth. Story is good enough.
DA2: Action Arcade type of game. Really odd sequel. An ok game on itself, but a lousy sequel.
DA Inquisition: Singleplayer MMO-style rpg. Great graphics, huge world, lots (of very boring stuff) to do. Nice characters, interesting ending. Elves suck :P

If I could play only one, I'd play DA: Origins. Inquisition isn't a bad game, but too much time is spent on boring side-missions. This caused my game to break. When you're past level 16 halfway through the game, there isn't much to upgrade anymore. The only thing that kept me going was the story quests.