Despite all the hate for the DLC, I was looking forward to that, so …   Yay! \o/

Any ideas how much they are charging for it? 

I want this DLC.
 
 

Oh man getting this.

I've got and beat it and tis not so good. the highest rated loot i got was silverite

"I've got and beat it and tis not so good. the highest rated loot i got was silverite "

don't buy this DLC
 
it's 55 minutes long if you look for everything. 
 The King's armor is "RED STEEL" material not so good
  Maric's sword is not very strong. 
Duncan's sword and Keening's dagger are good.
 No Duncan armor or Duncan's body.
 Nothing special combat/enemies wise

barely any new dialogue

I just bought it.  I have some points lying around and any excuse to play more Dragon Age is fine by me.  Though, I am now left with 20 remaining Microsoft points.

Oh Bioware... how I hate your DLC but love your games to death.

I don't know what everyone expects for those measly 3,49€. It's all about milking completionists (?) like me, but that's not exactly a secret.

" don't buy this DLC  it's 55 minutes long if you look for everything.   The King's armor is "RED STEEL" material not so good  Maric's sword is not very strong.  Duncan's sword and Keening's dagger are good.  No Duncan armor or Duncan's body.  Nothing special combat/enemies wise barely any new dialogue "

" @trophyhunter said:

" don't buy this DLC  it's 55 minutes long if you look for everything.   The King's armor is "RED STEEL" material not so good  Maric's sword is not very strong.  Duncan's sword and Keening's dagger are good.  No Duncan armor or Duncan's body.  Nothing special combat/enemies wise barely any new dialogue "

It's also 5 dollars. "

I'm about to play this and since I need to fiddle around with some tech-related stuff, I'm going to live stream it. So if you don't care about DLC spoilers and want to see what it's all about, check back on this thread in 30 minutes :)

Stream is live and will begin in just a few minutes :)
 
Edit: Link removed, thanks all!

Damn XBLA (Aus). Return to Ostagar was up earlier today. Couldn't buy it, kept getting a service error, it said try again later. I tried again later and it was simply gone from the arcade. I have 420 spare points that can be spent and would use any reason to get back into Dragon Age for a second playthrough.

" Damn XBLA (Aus). Return to Ostagar was up earlier today. Couldn't buy it, kept getting a service error, it said try again later. I tried again later and it was simply gone from the arcade. I have 420 spare points that can be spent and would use any reason to get back into Dragon Age for a second playthrough. "

I just checked XBL to download it while I slept and it doesn't appear to be there as of 3:30 AM EST. Did it get pulled or is going to Xbox.com the only way to download it so far?

How come the worst version of the game gets the DLC first?

Don't know why there's so much hate for Bioware DLC. I found the other two pretty damn good (though very expensive) and Bringing Down the Sky on Mass Effect was spectacular (though their next one was...craptastic, I believe is the word).

Ah cool, anyways ill get it before i go to work in the morning tomorrow. I know i have some extra points laying around on my computer desk somewhere.

They pulled it: http://social.bioware.com/forum/Dragon-Age-Origins/Dragon-Age-Origins-General-Discussion-NO-SPOILERS-ALLOWED/Title-Update-Specialization-issue-and-Return-to-Ostagar-Update-608506-1.html
 
Kinda pathetic, me thinks.

Sucks that they had an issue with it to begin with but good that they picked up on it quickly enough so it didn't screw absolutely all Dragon Age players

" Sucks that they had an issue with it to begin with but good that they picked up on it quickly enough so it didn't screw absolutely all Dragon Age players "

Well, that sucks. I guess I shouldn't have downloaded the update last night. Why are developers like Bethesda and Bioware having such trouble with getting  DLC to work right?

" @Captain_Insano said:

" Sucks that they had an issue with it to begin with but good that they picked up on it quickly enough so it didn't screw absolutely all Dragon Age players "

Screwed me though. On the plus side the patch did finally give me credit for the DLC achievements that didn't register the first time round. I already downloaded Ostagar... is it worth waiting for them to put it back out again before I start it up? "

Stop teasing us! We need our fix!

I think to be on the safe side I'll just hold off playing until they come out with an update that fixes whatever they broke. Will give me an excuse to play some of the games on my shelf I've never touched.

Has there been any word from the powers at Bioware as to a title update or eta on Ostagar finally coming out?

The one thing to be glad about is that it may not turn out to be a Fallout 3 DLC fiasco in terms of bugs (at least, for those who didn't manage to already download it for the minutes it was up), but man, I wish they'd keep us better updated. 
 
It's also weird seeing the PC version of this DLC tossed into second priority over the 360 version.

It probably has a lot to do with sales numbers. I haven't heard anything official but the story usually goes that the console versions, specifically 360, far outsell the PC version. While Dragon Age very much is a PC game at heart I'm going to go out on a limb and say it sold much better on the consoles.

I uninstalled the game, I am sick of waiting for a 45 minute long DLC. I should be able to use those 400 points for ME2 DLC later on, so they are not entirely wasted.

How sure are you that the ME2 DLC won't be similar? They are made by the same developer after all.

So did they decide to just hold everything back until after Mass Effect 2 is released? I haven't heard a thing about it since the 360 version got released and was swiftly taken down again. You'd think they'd have had it out on all platforms, by now.
 
If that is  the case, I've just gotta ask, why? Do they really thing it's going to cannibalize the sales for their major game, or did they pull all the Bioware staff away to work on post-release Mass Effect 2 patches/DLC?

The DLC really was not worth it. Once the idea of Oh snap I'm going back to Ostagar wore off, it was pretty lame.

It might just be that busted. Whatever was going on it got the release pulled twice and led to a title patch that messed up some things pretty badly. They might still be trying to figure out just what they did and how to fix it.

I have a feeling this won't be coming for about a month, just to stay clear from Mass Effect 2.

Yeah, I'm really disappointed with Bioware's DLC efforts so far. DLC as a whole has always been a terrible experience as far as I'm concerned.