I see premium DLC content on the Xbox Live Marketplace today and the game isn't even out in the UK, real classy EA & Bioware.

It's 2011 man. Everyone's doing it. :(

Why not? We've seen time and time again developers can take a dump, slap a price tag on it and call it extra content, and the people will still go crazy for it. No real point in making one whole good game when you can just chop it up into pieces and sell each one at a premium. 

It's been on the PS store since last tuesday. =/

" Why not? We've seen time and time again developers can take a dump, slap a price tag on it and call it extra content, and the people will still go crazy for it. No real point in making one whole good game when you can just chop it up into pieces and sell each one at a premium.  "

Late to the party, most people got their complaining out on the news article about this. 
 
Honestly though, most people don't realize how this works. After a game is finished, it has to go through cert and lots of other stuff, that takes several months (especially xbox certification). So, you have a team of developers who worked on the game and are done now, months before the game came out. You put them to work on DLC, they get some content done before the game ships. That DLC gets through cert really quickly, since by then the final product made it so its easy to get the DLC approved. So then you have DLC content that was never going to be in the main game, but can be released at the same time. Then you do that, and people complain. 
 
The solution, of course, would be to make the DLC the same way they do, but then don't announce it or release it until a while after the game is released. People will complain less when then don't have access to that content until later (although, tbh, most of the DLC that gets done that quickly, including the DLC you refer to, doesn't seem very interesting or necessary).

Well, now you can enjoy all this premium content right from the beginning of the game! And without having to wait for stuff to download before starting up the disc! Why, you should be thanking EA for being so gracious to you!  
 
(cough, sarcasm, cough). 

...I'm done arguing in threads like this.

DA:O had even more stuff to buy, day one.

" @blueduck said:

" Why not? We've seen time and time again developers can take a dump, slap a price tag on it and call it extra content, and the people will still go crazy for it. No real point in making one whole good game when you can just chop it up into pieces and sell each one at a premium.  "

That's not how premium content works at all, but I see you want to be cool and jaded, so whatever. In reality, the developers aren't just sitting around playing tetris on their computers when the game goes gold. They have time to create small extra things that put into the game, because what else are they going to do? They won't get paid for sitting on their asses until it's time to develop a new game. "

" Late to the party, most people got their complaining out on the news article about this.  Honestly though, most people don't realize how this works. After a game is finished, it has to go through cert and lots of other stuff, that takes several months (especially xbox certification). So, you have a team of developers who worked on the game and are done now, months before the game came out. You put them to work on DLC, they get some content done before the game ships. That DLC gets through cert really quickly, since by then the final product made it so its easy to get the DLC approved. So then you have DLC content that was never going to be in the main game, but can be released at the same time. Then you do that, and people complain.  The solution, of course, would be to make the DLC the same way they do, but then don't announce it or release it until a while after the game is released. People will complain less when then don't have access to that content until later (although, tbh, most of the DLC that gets done that quickly, including the DLC you refer to, doesn't seem very interesting or necessary). "

So, what's the problem?

" @blueduck said:

" Why not? We've seen time and time again developers can take a dump, slap a price tag on it and call it extra content, and the people will still go crazy for it. No real point in making one whole good game when you can just chop it up into pieces and sell each one at a premium.  "

That's not how premium content works at all, but I see you want to be cool and jaded, so whatever. In reality, the developers aren't just sitting around playing tetris on their computers when the game goes gold. They have time to create small extra things that put into the game, because what else are they going to do? They won't get paid for sitting on their asses until it's time to develop a new game. "

I wish people would actually learn what they're talking about. Mazin and Ribo got it right. Why can't everybody else understand that simple fact?