So how can Bioware justify DLC in a timely fashion?

The Leviathan, Omega and Citadel DLC came out pretty late. The rest was just aesthetic stuff. I'm not going to say anything about From Ashes because I have nothing nice to say about it.

It's only been a little over a month. DAI was released in November and didn't get its first DLC until sometime in March the following year. 

"Just take my money, Bioware."

That's why they justify it? A lot of us have already got a lot of enjoyment out of the game and will be ready and happy to pay for expanded content, hoping that it's good quality and value for money (but they are relatively good in this area compared to other developers). For everyone else, they got a complete game with a few glitches that the developers will continue to fix (some already have been).

Yeah, but it's a completely sensible thing to do. They should probably keep quiet about it if true.

I'm not worried about it. I'm sure they have folks working on a dlc while others are working on patches for the game. If I had to guess when the first dlc is released, it might be the end of June, beginning of July.

The first two weeks the game was out, this board was incredibly negative overall about the game.  Most normal people lost interest and moved on.  Now you are stuck mostly with fanboys and haters, and a few people who check back each day hoping to see some info about a patch.

I don't expect we'll get any non-cosmetic DLC in a while, certainly not before late summer at the very earliest, so they have plenty of time to fix the bugs and add some needed improvements. They'll have to be tactful with their PR for sure anyway though.

What I don't get about the whole EA thing is what the fucking point is. It's not like EA is a random guy/gal working for BioWare who can be fired at some point if we all keep blaming him for any evil like, say, Mac Walters. EA OWN BioWare, so judging them as separate entities just make no sense anymore. BioWare is a branch of EA and should be treated as such.

Edit: To clarify, I'm not saying we should bully Mac until he's fired/relegated to a lower position, it's just a nod to the healthy obsesssion some people have about him.

I'm not sure they are working on much of anything up there.  Another Tuesday, another week with no patch.  Game has been out for 7 weeks now and the only thing they have patched is an eye shader and Addison's tired face.  For an otherwise decent game that was received with much negativity about the bugs and lack of polish, I dunno, maybe they think its just not worth it to bother patching at this point.  I am literally flabbergasted they are taking so long on patching rather major issues with the game.  If I had released a game that was widely panned for all the bugs and technical problems I would be rushing to get fixes out, but then I take pride in my work. /shrug

So?  That doesn't even have anything to do with the point of my post.

At this point I'm just happy Jaal wasn't Day 1 DLC.

But DLC should be the last thing they're working on. They need to fix the base game first. I think I read somewhere that the patch was going to be released in three phases. All three phases should be out before any DLC is released, or even announced.