Saw this over at joystiq 
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/17/first-lara-croft-dlc-pack-free-for-first-30-days-on-xbox-360/
 
It says the first dlc is going to be free for 30 days. So does that mean it's free to download for the first 30 days. If you want to get it after you have to pay. Or is it like the PS+ and it's free for 30 days. But after those 30 days you have to pay for it. Whether you've already downloaded it already or not?
  
Can anyone clarify this?

Pretty sure it's just plain free for 30 days and after that you have to pay to get it. To my knowledge MS has never had anything on XBLA that charged you after playing it for a limited amount of time, sans demos of course. Though now you have me doubting myself..

This is a fantastic idea.  There are a lot of people, myself included, that wait for a sale for most XBLA titles.  If you want to do that with this game, you're going to miss out on some DLC.  If you supported the developer and bought the game at full price, you get a bonus for doing so. 
 
As for the game itself, I already bought it, and I'm really enjoying it.

Personally, the game is worth more than the $15 price tag, so getting free DLC within the first 30 days...  Hell to the yes!

i approve of this 

Nice of them after delaying the online co-op.

Very cool. Loving the game so far.

" This is a fantastic idea.  There are a lot of people, myself included, that wait for a sale for most XBLA titles.  If you want to do that with this game, you're going to miss out on some DLC.  If you supported the developer and bought the game at full price, you get a bonus for doing so.   As for the game itself, I already bought it, and I'm really enjoying it. "

You can still download the dlc without having the game, which i intend to do, in case I'll buy the game at a later point (sale)

1200 ms point and a promised 5 premium dlc packs which have already been made and just cut out of the game is bullshit.

Any idea when the DLC is going to be released in order to grab?

" @SpaceInsomniac said:

" This is a fantastic idea.  There are a lot of people, myself included, that wait for a sale for most XBLA titles.  If you want to do that with this game, you're going to miss out on some DLC.  If you supported the developer and bought the game at full price, you get a bonus for doing so.   As for the game itself, I already bought it, and I'm really enjoying it. "

You can still download the dlc without having the game, which i intend to do, in case I'll buy the game at a later point (sale)

1200 ms point and a promised 5 premium dlc packs which have already been made and just cut out of the game is bullshit.

"

Honestly I don't know whether they already made the dlc content, but if they haven't they really should fix the lack of online instead of making new content...

I grew up with "dlc" being free and will probably never see premium dlc as a positive... 

As for xbla games being 1200 Ms points, It just doesn't seem like the development cost and risk of a short development cycle by a tiny team justify the price.

I've for example bought 4 "new" games this month Metro 2033, Darksiders, Bayonetta and Mass Effect 2... each of them costing about 1600 MS points

None of those games are "new." :p