Well for what it's worth, DA:O was my first RPG after years of thinking gaming was only about shooters, and I play primarily on an XBOX 360. I loved the radically different gaming experience it offered. I urged 6 of my friends, who were all shooter goons, to play it. 5 of the 6 picked it up and all 5 (plus me of course)completed it to the end.
Each of us 6 RPG newbs did a minimum of two playthroughs. I personally did 7, 3 others did roughly 4 or 5, and 2 of us did 2 playthroughs. Each encouraged a friend or two, but I'll pass on discussing since that really takes anecdotal evidence too far into hearsay.
After much discussion about what we knew was going to be a compressed development timeline (and we didn't know a helluva lot about RPGs, but we knew a year was nowhere near enough time to pull together something so complex), and what we heard about the "changes," we still decided to purchase (4 of us pre-ordered) DA2.
2 of us completed it (only managing a single playthrough [I actually finished Act 1 of a 2nd playthrough), 3 didn't finish Act 2, 1 didn't finish Act 1; all of us were greatly disappointed. We could not fathom how an RPG developer (never heard of Bioware until Origins) which had the horsepower to bring us all into the fold to play a "lame" fantasy game, would put out a sequel which stripped out nearly everything we found attractive about Origins, tried so hard to be an action game (which we could smell as a fraud a mile away), and worst of all, was such a drudgery to play. To me (us) it was anything but epic. Give me playing a Warden slaying Archdemons anyday, over playing some passive schlep. It might cliche or so "2 years ago," but it damn sure works for an interactive story.
Anyway, I could detail a list of the basic consensus among us of what we thought was terrible compared to Origins, but that's a horse long dead, and Bioware has been fairly clear that it is DA2 that has all the "potential," not the game we, as a group of RPG newcomers, actually liked. We may not be bright hardcore RPG nerds, chatting up the finer details of video cards and mods, but we can clearly see the writing on the wall with this franchise.
Needless to say, there are 4 pre-orders I personally know of that BW cannot count on for DA3. Maybe they'll realize at a corporate level, what a jewel they had in Origins (in our anectdotal opinion of course), and attempt to repeat that experience. But in word and deed, BWs vision for the franchise isn't really what we as a group want.
The collapse in sales makes perfect sense to us...anecdotally speaking.
EDIT: Origins led four of us to Mass Effect 1 and 2, and we like the ME franchise very much (it's nice to have your co-op team established early on BTW), but, unfortunately we aren't very much interested in DA any longer since BW seems no longer interested in giving us what attracted us in the first place. It's a shame really. We were pretty stoked about Dragons and Wardens and Witches for a year or so.
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