Casey Hudson reassures Dragon Age fans: “live” doesn’t mean “microtransactions”, but “post-main game storytelling”.
Let’s not get too worried about what Shittaku Kotaku says: their sources are often wrong, misquoted, and unrealiable. It’s better to wait for official confirmations, like in this case, rather than jump on the Despair and Pessimism bandwagon.
Like it happened with DA:I, DA4 will probably have multiplayer content and DLC (that’s how they “continue storytelling” once the main story is done), which, surprise, are a form of microtransaction and are not new to the series!