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[Beerfish]

Which sounds like a good reason to start downplaying him now, no? If people are getting such an overblown impression of a minor joke character, its time to give him a break rather than fueling the fire.

Eh?  All of BioWares actions up to that point made him NOT a minor character.  They lit the match, poured gas on it, added some timber to it, cooked some ribs on it, added some baked potatoes to the coals and then said, oh, we really never had a bbq even as we can all smell the bbq and see them in the back ground eating those ribs.  BioWare has an increasingly bad habit of just tossing characters aside and not tieing up all the loose ends they have attached to them in previous games.

[berelinde]

More like "We fired up the grill because we had some burgers we wanted to cook, and then we wound up tossing on a beer can chicken, and some corn cobs, and then we fired up the side burner because you can't eat corn cobs without melted butter, and since we've got the butter, maybe we should see if there are lobsters in the freezer, and... Wait a minute. All we really wanted to cook was some burgers."

 

I love character development, I really do, but sometimes, you just need a character to walk on stage, say a line or two, and walk off. There are walk on characters with careers that extended far beyond their expectations, but with a character like that, you really want to watch where the attention is focused. When David Gaider wrote that, it was shortly after DAI came out. They were still processing feedback from DA2 and evaluating the effect of changes they made in DAI compared to that baseline. My takeaway from his post was, paraphrased, "We had to let the dust settle before we could determine the lay of the land. If it shapes up to be something we want, we can explore it further, but we needed to step away to see its shape." It isn't that we will never see Sandal again. It's more that they're going to give it some more thought and not make any promises.