Originally Posted by kanisatha
Oh sure. I agree. A well done open world game can be really good. But when I said "people," what I meant was people who loved the original DA game, not gamers generally.

You mean the same DA fans who complained about DA2 being too linear?

DAI being open world is likely a direct result of the massive number of complaints about DA2's linearity.

Any dislike from DA fans about DAI as such is not due to them being some sort of linear game afficionados, but from DAI's poor implementation of an open world.