MEA DLC

No offence, but did you even read that link, or did you just see 'DLC code inside' and go from there?


So it's a free multiplayer booster pack, like a Spectre pack from ME3: MP. That's not DLC.

Firstly,No Day 1 DLC!

Secondly,give us proper expansions not tiny DLC and make the story in them interesting and not unnecessary fluff.

Anyway,I only hope they just don't cut anything too vital to the games plotm and capitalize on it as it happened with Javik.

Wasn't Javik originally a part of ME:3, but then removed and sold as a DLC? Or is that just a rumour spread by disgruntled fan's?

To the OP. Personally, I prefer story DLC, Like we got in DA:I. The last DLC for that game was great and made me tear up. The Citadel by contrast, made me laugh my arse off, but was equally great.
So, give me a good story DLC and I'm happy.

I absolutely loved the Trespasser DLC, so I would say something along those lines but with even more opportunities to hang out and chat with companions and my LI. So like... epic and awesome and social and fun.

Too much to ask? I think not.

I've not hadany more trouble with them any moer than anyone else tbh but then I don't buy into multiplayer stuff I only play singleplayer games

Bridging DLC set post game that links to whatever comes next

The problem I have with people that are going for the "taken out of the game just to be DLC" have no proof for their argument, for there isn't any proof aside from he was worked on during some of development and then abandoned.  If I could see proof that Javik was complete and then removed it would be one thing, but there is not any evidence of that.  I could be remembering wrong, but on the Mass Effect 3 disk his base model is on the disk so it looks like he was finished to a certain point and then cut, but at the same time BioWare has said they were working on more origins for Dragon Age: Origins, but were cut for one reason or another during development as well.

He was cut from the game in 2011.

Here's more information about that. It also had the Citadel coup happening after Thessia

Fallout 4 has assets for a couple unfinished weapons and supposedly evidence of more underwater gameplay. ME2 has dialogue for Legion from when he could be recruited much earlier. KotOR 1 and 2 both had significant amounts of cut content left in the game files that has been restored and or finished by modders.  There is indeed nothing odd about cut content still present in the game files.

Personally I have no trouble imagining something being cut for time or budget only to later be added back by DLC (even day 1). Optimistic view, part of dev team really wanted it in the game and pushed to finish it as DLC. Cynical perspective, corporate ordered them to just finish something that had already had some work done, cheaper that way, better margin. Either way, not hard to imagine.

DAI DLC was pretty decent, except for:

Spoils of the Avvar / Qunari

No, that's not quality DLC in my view.

I doubt they would have made that much of a change to a game because of a leak, for then not only did they have to finish crunch on the incomplete content they also would have had to go back and probably change areas of the game that were developmentally finished.  I could see minor changes because they wouldn't be hard to accomplish, but changing the main storyline which compromises a good chunk of the game and probably the areas they focused on completing first seems like a stretch.  

My belief is that (edit: never) could have ever been a "good" ending to Mass Effect 3 for so much hype was built into it across years of people playing the games, it might have worked for some people and at the same time others would have hated it. Any of the ideas BioWare had could have seemed good on paper, but the execution is where they would have all stumbled because of the hype.  That is why I doubt you will see a developer try and span a single story across multiple games for awhile.

I don't think it was the real plot, it could have been the initial plot before issues in development required changes which from the articles I read is a common problem due to issues during development from areas becoming impossible to complete with current technology (think of consoles running out of memory to run the area) to simply running out of time.

I agree, the other thing I liked about the story DLC is they made changes to have they worked based on what players were saying, as much as they could within the constraints of being a DLC. I know people that were playing on the 360 and PS3 were upset about Trespasser not being on those consoles, but I think it would have been a much less DLC if they had to figure out a way to cram in on those consoles.