Clarification on what the Dragon Age Keep syncs

posted Aug 30, 2014, 10:29 AM by Princess Stabbity   [ updated Aug 30, 2014, 10:30 AM ]
We had a preview of the Keep at PAX (see this news post for all the reveal videos and the PAX Prime coverage page for any other info that comes in) and there's a little bit of confusion about what is synced from the old Bioware Social Network. The games sync your Wardens and Hawkes there and you can look at their individual stories and see their portraits and achievements and such. However, the Keep will not bring the plots in from the old BSN. Bioware's Brian Mills made this post to help clear things up:

Brian Mills, on 30 Aug 2014 - 01:12 AM, said:

It also seems that some people think we are syncing savegame data for your heroes, based on the videos; there's not been any change for that since the most recent FAQ, and we still don't have any direct importing of savegame plot data. You'll have to customize your world state whether your heroes are imported or not, unless you are happy with whatever the default is. What you can do is select which hero is in your world state, vs. the world state for your hero.