Seriously, what is this. I am about to take advantage of the 24 hour return period on Inquisitions because this thing is so bad. Why would such a crucial part of this series be done so badly? The thing that made Dragon Age: Origins -> Awakening -> Dragon Age 2 so great is the feeling of my choices having lasting impacts on the world. Yet this extremely important feature of the game series, you can't bother to have a working save game import we have to go through and remember and manually select every single important choice we've ever made in the series.
And then to further it, some of the choices aren't even possible and it is infuriating. I've already found 2 important choices that can't be completed. My warden was in a romance and a lover of Alistair, yet I convinced Alistair to have the ritual with Morrigan so that neither died. However if I try to say both Alistair and the Warden is alive it won't let me. Also, if I try to put that the Warden was a lover with Alistair, and Alistair had a baby with Morrigan (as per the ritual) it won't let me do that either. What is this stupidity?
These are both highly important lasting choices. One being whether this baby is around or not, and the other being whether the warden and Alistair lived or not. This is infuriating.
If this is the quality I can expect for the newest of Dragon Age games I am seriously questioning my purchase.
EDIT... and to make it even worse, after going through all the trouble to add all my choices to this tapestry, then exporting to DAI... starting a new game in Inquisition just sits there trying to import for like 30 seconds and then says No Custom World State Found. .... Horrible *sigh*
1) The Keep is still in beta, so there are bound to be issues with it.
2) I've seen other people complaining about this issue too. I did a world-state where my f!Surana romanced Alistair, made him king, had him do the DR, but didn't stay with him because he wasn't hardened. There are ways to get around these issues. Just try selecting that Morrigan did the DR with Alistair first, lock it in, then select that your Warden romanced Alistair, made him king, and stayed as his lover. I've had issues too, but it's pretty easy to get around them if you switch up the order in which you select them.
3) There are known issues with save game imports and many people have encountered them. For example: if you didn't bring Nathaniel with you to fight the Mother in Awakening, there was a serious chance that DA2 wouldn't register him as being alive and the Act III quest where you have to save him won't trigger. There's also similar things where if you import an Awakening save, some romances won't carry over because DA2 reads approval flags or something like that since Awakening didn't have romances. I haven't encountered any of those issues, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
4) I've had that issue with world-state imports too. You have to get out of DA:I, import your world-state, and go back into DA:I. It doesn't seem to work while DA:I is running. Simple fix.
Honestly, despite not having any issues with save game imports, I prefer the Keep. It really helps if you're carrying a world-state across console generations or you're switching from consoles to PC, PC to consoles, or going from one console to another. BW's sticking with the Keep, so just grin and bear it.
This gif sums it up perfectly:
