More free guns, hovertanks and expansions, less Returning to ostagar and pinnacle stations :(

as long as the smaller downloads stay free, i'll be happy.

I'm pretty excited about Dragon Age: Awakening simply because I've been waiting for a proper expansion for a while from Bioware. While I certainly appreciate that Bioware are giving us scraps of content here and there and new weapons to play with I wish they would do proper full expansions perhaps half the length of the game itself.

I'm hoping they do something similar to Awakening at least twice more for Dragon Age and also for Mass Effect 2.

The fans like DLC when it works. Dragon Age DLC has been a nightmare thus far. Months after release and my Stone Prisoner DLC still isn't working, depite three tickets with customer support. One of those tickets didn't get a response for 12 days, even though it says "expect a response in 24 hours", and the other one got a response of "we can't help with game play issues, try asking other members on the forums". I broke an empty DVD case over that one.

When you buy DLC from Bioware, you're taking a risk that it might not work, and there is a good chance you'll be on your own trying to fix it. Take a look at the Dragon Age forums to see all the game-breaking problems people have had. Bioware has lost any faith or confidence I ever had in them.

"I'm confused. What does Fallout 3 have to do with anything? Did I miss a joke in there somewhere?"

I think the comment was to commend Fallout 3 for how it handled DLC. To be honest, Bioware completely screwed the pooch with ME1.

@Xzyliac -- Fallout 3 is a good example of a game with solid post-release DLC. My point was that, in contrast, I've been underwhelmed with EA and Bioware's DLC offerings for their games. In my opinion, Bethesda set the bar pretty high for DLC in RPGs, and it's going to be difficult for Bioware to reach a similar level of quality in their DLC offerings.

@xaliqen
Oh! Okay.

Bethesda had a better plan, but the quality of the "expansions" were still typical Bethesda content released in beta test form. I swear Bethesda games see more actual fixes from the user base than the creators themselves.

Between Rock Band and ME1's Bringing Down the Sky, I've had a very pleasant experience with DLC. The free DLC characters for DOA and ME2 have also been very appreciated.

@Chibi_Zero -- I said 'Bethesda set the bar pretty high for DLC content in RPGs.' I was including previous Bethesda games in my thoughts here. There's probably something to be said for them being good at the whole expansion thing partially because they've been doing it longer than most developers.

@The Silent Protagonist -- I've run into a few bugs in Bethesda's recent games, but I honestly can't name a single open-world RPG that doesn't have significant bugs at the time of release. It's just the nature of the thing. For the record, my first play-through of Fallout 3 shortly after its release didn't yield any glitches I felt significantly impacted my enjoyment of the game. That's just my opinion, though.

Registering on the EA "social network", or whatever, was also another drag. It's absolutely useless and a waste of customer time. Games for Windows LIVE for Fallout 3 was just as bad, if not worse, and the only DLC that was really worth the effort was Broken Steel. The hoops they make you jump through are often not worth the effort, especially when the DLC is underwhelming.

@The Silent Protagonist

Mass Effect 2? An incomplete game? Bullshit. That comment alone pretty much disqualifies anything you have to say as informed.

Tell that to the publications that reviewed it well before any of it was available, and still made it one of the most acclaimed games in recent memory. Even my first play-through was finished well before the most of it was even out, and I can declare that the game is complete without Zaeed, who was a total throw away character.

If a publisher decides to reward it's patrons with free stuff, and literally all you have to do is enter a single code once, I don't have an issue with it.

And the fact that you think it's some huge burden makes you sound like a ranting, unreasonable twat.

People can still choose to buy used games, and they will. Publishers are just finally catching on and adding incentives to that decision.

I think the cerberus network makes sense, bioware need to make a profit and if you buy the game used, bioware doesn't see any profit; the gamestops, gamecrazy, and other companies do. With the network if ppl get it used bioware can still get some profit from the dlc. Ppl who complain about the logic behind it don't get the big picture that the used games market takes a bite out of bioware and they gotta put food on the table.

I hate Bioware. It's easier to find a new chick and get laid by her than it is to get people to tell you what you need them to tell you in order to proceed in their games.

They single handedly ruined Star Wars games with that sham of a game, KOTOR.

augh, sorry for that empty comment.

@Free DLC Naysayers

I hear a lot of people claiming that registering with EA was a waste of time, How long did it really take you, for me it was about 3-5 minutes. Sure in internet ADHD time that may seem like forever, but considering it's free DLC I couldn't complain. Ok maybe its not entirely free, but nothing is ever free. Plus you do it for one EA game, you at least know you wont have to do it again.

And what about the Dr.Pepper DLC? I thought the recon hood was awesome. It made me look like a homicidal power ranger.

At least when you buy the game new, or purchase the Cerberus network your giving a bit back to a developer that deserves it for an awesome game. Sure I agree that the paid DLC better be held to better standards. But considering how Bioware can take criticism and build upon it(ME1 compared to ME2) I think they're deserving of another chance. Firewalker's looking to be good, and I don't think I'll mind a bit for paying for it.

@Jim

Just to clear this up for me, have you played/finished ME2 yet?

Firewalker is FREE! It's the new character, Kasumi (Bioware's name creativity must be sapped) and mission(s?) that will require payment.

wow, did a 12year old write this article? seriously.

You could have a separate back-story DLC mission for each of Shepard's new teammates, well...Except for Grunt of course. I'd love to play as Jack post Cerberus escape or Thane doing his whole Zen assassin thing.