Originally Posted by Elly
If the game just assumed Tav wants to stay with him, why would the breakup option even be there? You can leave Spawn Astarion in this scene.

To show there are consequences to your decisions and so you can see what would happen if you kept going in that direction and then tried to go back on your word last minute. Every other romance has a breakup possibility there, so they put it in for formality's sake too. To me it's the same option like the one where you sign a deal with Raphael, don't steal the contract, and expect to leave the House of Hope alive when he confronts you.

Originally Posted by Elly
Why not? The same thing could have been said about players' requests for happy faces after Patch 6. The fact that they're now changing the expressions at all proves that they care about player agency. And it would be really weird to fix an issue with player agency by taking it away in the other direction, in my opinion, especially when that other direction was originally the only one.

They never bothered to allow us to kiss AA in the epilogue, despite the fact that he's the only LI who doesn't have a romantic interaction. It was the biggest complaint after patch 5 was released. It took them half a year to change these expressions after countless requests and a magazine article describing the problem. They are also moving away from the game. Realistically, I expect this to be the last update when it comes to Astarion.