I can understand both sides of the coin.
I have to honestly say that I enjoyed the first part more than the DLC as well, but for a DLC it's good. If you wanted to have a hub of activity you've achieved it.
I do agree that it's a shame that there weren't more dragon flying parts in FOV, that the area felt a bit confined and that a few open area's would have added allot to it. Maybe some flying fortresses you had to visit or something more quest related to do in dragon form appart from shooting things. The story as mentioned seemed a bit rushed and as pointed out why go through all this when you could have asked Bellegar from the start. Also the Battle Tower felt a tad left out and in some ways usless or an after thought and I was hoping you could recruit the people in the town for your tower and have them work together with the existing ones to train you better or offer other/new services to tie in those ends (maybe something more with Sassan).
But I can also understand the pressure of trying to bring something to market quickly because allot of people are waiting for it and that then there's choices to be made.
I see these things are possibilities for the future and fun gimicks and if anyone had given me the choice of these over compromizing the storyline or the dialogues or characters then I would scratch it without blinking an eye.
All in all I truely enjoyed the entire game from front to end played through in 40 almost consecutive hours (gotta sleep sometimes).
I can only hope that you guys can take on board some of the things folks say in a constructive maner and make the next installment as great a success in story and character as it has been if not better.
P.S.
I have to truthfully say I would have loved to fly till the air turns thin only to plumet to the ground at death defying speed as well
