Why rise of the Hutt Cartel is a failure

Dragon Age 2 suffered from a completely different, completely unrelated set of problems. It wasn't about BioWare not caring, it was a failed experiment. BioWare was setitng out to write a new type of story. They wanted to try a story with a more reactionary character, one where everything wasn't driven by a single person, but rather the story of a person in a difficult time reacting to something in a way that was somewhat realistic, instead of everything in the entire world be driven by a single character.

Sure, the result of that was destroyed player agency and a character with no ability to take the initiative, even if the player could deduce what was going on, but I don't criticize them for wanting to try something new.

Firstly, the story, what happened to the bioware of old, where each planet had it's own unique and interesting story, when I genuinely felt like something was happening and I was all that stood in the way of chaos, now we get the same old cookie cutter story on each planet, by the second time of playing it through you will be hitting the space bar I promise.

Secondly, the decisions, in old bioware games the decisions you made ACTUALLY MADE A DIFFERENCE! Now, nothing changes, not even what the person you are talking to says. That hurts bioware... I mean wow... it is lazy, that is the only way I can put it..

and no Morrigan. I like Tallis. but seriously, DA:I needs Morrigan.

I have to take issue with this bit.

Firstly, the planet stories are the same because a war is going on. You are literally on each planet to
A. Do your story missions and
B. Do your part in the war for your faction.
You remain pretty much all that stands in the way of chaos.
Of course you would get bored by your 2nd...3rd....4th play through. How many other games can you do the same things over and over and never get bored? Try playing KOTOR 7 times in a row and see if you aren't crying by the end.

Secondly, I call party foul on your "nothing changes" bit. People do react to what you say and do. Sometimes, people even die.

If you don't like it, it's well within your rights but your personal reasons do not make the ex-pac a failure to anyone but you. I declare your title pompous and utterly ridiculous.

I forgot to mention that, sorry. Claudia Black is awesome. Even when she was playing a psychotic quarian admiral, she was simply awesome. Morrigan was a great character. Hopefully she'll be back if the series ever recovers enough to get a third entry.

As I said at the top, this is completely my own opinion, so please keep from flaming.

People may react to you differently, but in the story from this expansion, no matter what I say, they will get the same point across, I will have to do the same thing, and that choice I have made, will have little to no relevance to the future of that story or side quest. Compare this to the start of Tython, where your character is sent out to find the missing students, and you are given a choice, either send them back or help them take revenge on the flesh raiders, and that choice actually did something and changed the mission.

How often do you see that in this expansion? My answer, not enough, for a bioware game, there is not enough decisions that actually change how the game is played or how anything progresses.

Again this is only my opinion, I respect that everyone has their own opinions, but keep from flaming