Key Takeaways
- Dragon Age: Inquisition servers have been a mess for more than a week.
- This means that players cannot import their world states, and have to play with the default one.
- The Golden Nug statue is also disappearing from playthroughs, preventing players from synchronising their collectables.
If you were thinking of replaying Dragon Age: Inquisition now that The Veilguard is out, you might want to put your plans on hold. The servers are a mess, not letting players import their world states, which forces them to abandon their choices made in previous games.
Even if you imported a world state from the Dragon Age Keep before the servers started playing up, it seems you’re out of luck. Right now, the only option when you start a new save is to use the default world state, and it’s unclear when the servers will be fixed.
EA is aware of the issue, as fans have been raising awareness since at least November 5. In the EA support forums, a representative has repeatedly said that the issue is being investigated but admits that both Inquisition’s age and the fact that The Veilguard just launched complicates matters.
The last update came yesterday: “Wanted to let you know I am still looking out for this one. I know the whole ‘we are working on it’ message gets old. Believe me, I get it! There is a lot happening and being worked on with Dragon Age so things are a bit slower on other fronts.”
Another issue players are noticing is that the Golden Nug statue is disappearing from their games. This statue allows players to synchronise their collectables across all playthroughs, so you don’t have to track them down all over again. However, since this relies on the Dragon Age servers, this also isn’t working. While it was still present in my most recent playthrough, it gave me an error message whenever I tried to use it.
Dragon Age Server Issues Affect World States And The Golden Nug
While it does seem that the servers will be getting fixed this time, it has some fans scared for the future of Inquisition. If EA was to decide that fixing them wasn’t worth it, console players wouldn’t be able to do a full run of the series with their decisions being reflected in the third game. Given that Inquisition is very reactive to past choices, it would certainly be quite jarring.
The Veilguard gets around this by not relying on the Dragon Age Keep. However, the trade-off is that we only import three decisions, and they’re all from Inquisition. But at the very least, it doesn’t go against our previous choices – for the most part, anyway.
Dragon Age: Inquisition is the third in the popular action RPG series from BioWare, and serves as a sequel to the events of Dragon Age 2. You must travel the continent of Thedas in order to seal the ‘Breach’, a kind of portal that is sending demonic enemies into the world.