Originally Posted by Gray Ghost
It really seems to me like making Halsin and Minthara companionos was a mistake on Larian's part. Most people seem unhappy, they have to spend so much time and money constantly fixing and adding things to make the inclusion work, and it just makes other stuff confusing and complicated in turn. I think Larian would have been better off not listening to fans on this one. Clearly taking characters who aren't meant to be companions and making them companions is just a bad idea. Hopefully they've learned their lesson and don't repeat this mistake with any of the other characters people are asking for.
I disagree with this! For me the issue isn’t that they added him, but how they did it. They could easily have added him in a way that I would have loved!

One issue I had in EA was that I couldn’t find any male love interests I liked because the male love interests were either evil (Astarion) or involved with other women (Gale and Wyll). Adding Halsin as a love interest would have been perfect because he is good and wasn’t involved with anyone in EA! But then they made it required that your character agree to be involved with other people to date him! frown If they had written a sweet romance with only him, I would have been very happy! I still hope they will add a path like this for him!

This is personal taste, but one of the biggest issues I had from EA is that I had a hard time connecting with the companions, but I loved Halsin! To me the game is lacking in companions who are good. I hope in their next game they will make a larger variety of companions from the start and not just focus on the evil or neutral companions (even if they can change later). Having Halsin available earlier as a companion would help with this for me, although it would take more work recording voice lines.