If your suggestion is that origin players should have been created but somehow hidden as a secondary choice then I think you've missed the point. If custom was the default then by your reckoning, no-one would bother playing origin and the whole development would have been pointless.
Good. These games should be based around the player made character (hence the first game). Their development as a main point was pointless.
I will take the released game and promptly throw most of the premades in the trash at release unless they feel less shoe horned in and more like the companions in the first one. Just give me the random companion thing early so my warrior does not have to be an insufferable twat :P
