So With EA Play at 12:00PM PDT later today. What should EA say to us who bought Mass Effect:Andromad

CDPR releases expansions and calls them DLCs... those are some overworked underpaid Polish developers...

There is no clear definition outside of how players view the content and I admit my feelings are based around my feelings, but there isn't a general rule.  Frankly I think it is a debate that is only going to get players screwed over by developers and publishers trying to make their content sound better then what it is.

If you just want to say that it is an expansion because of the amount of hours it takes, fine it is an expansion for you.  To me the only way I can get it is by downloading the content off the internet so for me it is DLC and the only way my view of that will change is if I can buy it on disk.

I will admit, I am being hard headed.  I think at the end of the day DLC is just the evolution of expansions.  There are multiple flavors of DLC, but I think just going by how long it takes to complete it seems to be looking for a reason to consider one and not the other and leaving publishers as way to exploit people.

Instead of comparing the story DLC from Mass Effect, look at the DLC for Skyrim.  Bethesda classified Dawnguard as DLC and not an expansion, but the time I spend with it equals what you said about Blood and Wine and I think it was only $20 as well.  I think the story DLC for Fallout 4 is at the 15-20 hour range as well.

I think the better question is not about DLC vs Expansion but whether Bioware is bold enough to create a 20-30 hour story DLC like what CDPR did or will they stick with the 2-3 hour story DLCs and charge you $10 for it?

I concur. 

I'm an old gamer and I always viewed expansions as multiple areas that are linked by a whole new storyline or plot that continues the vanilla game regardless of the size. For me, Origins had a major expansion: Awakenings. Multiple areas encompassing a branching story further from Origins. Origins also had DLC, like Leliana's Song, new armor or weird little stuff like gifts. ME1 had one major DLC. ME2 had several and one was story critical. That should've been called an Expansion because it continued the story into ME3. ME3 had DLC and those were brilliant. Am I right on this? Does anyone else see it this way?

It can be an endless argument, it's why I view them all as the same. They all add content to the games, and each can be defined by anyone in various ways. I mainly call them DLC being how they're all downloadable content in the end regardless of size, what they add onto, etc etc.

in the older days expansions used to be defined as enough content to get its own disc, since then it's been rotating various definitions, it's why it's really a trivial and small matter.

Okay.

The plane saw a spider on the runway

So far EA has dropped the name of the new BIOWARE IP......ANTHEM.....it looks sci-fi and features what looks like a fallout/Titan fall type power suit????