I'm pretty excited for DA3 because as however many reservations I have about Bioware and their efforts, they're making Cassandra a party follower.
Cassandra a party follower (read: squeeeee)Also I'm one of those crazy cookies that liked Dragon Age 2's story simply because it was surprisingly lacking in grandeur and felt like a novel way of structuring the plot. Now that people aren't quite expecting DA3 to be a cookie-cutter fantasy quest like Origins was, it'll be interesting to see where Bioware takes it.
They really should ease up on the Mages vs. Templar diatribe though. I'm not actually against that theme being the main one for DA3 (since it'd be stupid if they dropped it after being so blatant about it in DA2), but I'd like some of the dialogue to be less... ham-fisted about it? I guess I didn't so much have a problem with the theme as much as it was implemented in Ander's ridiculous leaps of logic.
DA2 suffered mostly because of the time and resources constraint, I think. Seems like they won't be sparing any expense with 3.
Cutting out save data transfer would be ridiculous. That'd be ruining Bioware's schtick - that's
their thing they do!

Mass Effect 3's multiplayer is a fucking boss co-op mode. I have no problems with them implementing multiplayer in DA3 if they can make this work just as well. The obvious question is whether they can do the same for Dragon Age as they did for Mass Effect, being two completely different playstyles. Hopefully they'll limit microtransactions to multiplayer (like it is, very optionally for ME3).
also lol@ the remote possibility of EA dissolving Bioware. EA doesn't dump companies according to negative press coverage, they dump companies that don't sell a lot of winning product. SWTOR may have been a poor outcome all-around, but both DA2 and ME3 sold like hotcakes.