I have the amazing and rare ability to be at two places at the exact same time.
In one corner of San Francisco in 2K Marine, Borderland's game design director, Paul Hellquist and I talked about their fresh new DLC "The Secret Armory of General Knoxx." While my extremely handsome clone, hung out with online producer for Dragon Age: Origins -- Fernando Melo, where he told me everything there is know about their new DLC, Dragon Age Origins: Awakening.
Beyond the marketing bullet points, and pitches, I cut out all the fluff and left in what mattered. Two different developers, two different games, two radically different approaches to DLC. Can you guess which development team had no plans at all for DLC while they were working on their brand new IP?
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1:20 PM on 02.19.2010 | 
Bioware is Jesus, and gives us their shit for free if we support them.
• Making a Monster (10)
Build the New Car: Monster
• Athena, Out (25)
Rescue Athena
• Depot Demolition (25)
Destroy the Lance Depot
• Vincible (50)
Kill Crawmerax the Invincible
• Sneaky Little Buggers (25)
Kill each of the loot midgets
• Speed Kills (25)
Destroy a Lancer while in a Racer
• Ding! Overleveled (15)
Reach Level 51
• Ding! Overleveled to 11 (40)
Reach Level 61
• Completionist (25)
Complete all missions in Secret Armory
• Secret Achievement (10)
Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.
By giving different bits to a whole bunch of different stores and making you pay for the game 5 or 6 times if you want everything.
It's been rumoured that RtO will come with Awakening *but* I don't have a source for it. I saw it mentioned on the BSN forums where there's a host of topics about it. BioWare really, really dropped the ball with RtO and I hope it won't happen again.
Also, WTB Awa... Wait, I've already paid for it. Want Awakening now plx.
I hope Bioware keeps making more and more expansions however. I'd REALLY like to see them develop some harder dungeons that would challenge the players in more creative ways than just fighting tough enemies. Of course... lets the quality of RtO doesn't effect that of the expansion... we will see.