WTF Is Up With Dragon Age: Origins DLC?

For those of you that bought Dragon Age: Origins without a pre-order, or God forbid plan to buy it used, have missed out on mountains of loot. To add insult to injury, Bioware is offering some pretty game changing DLC on day one. Tom Chick has posted a rant aimed at Bioware and EA for the “Warden’s Keep” DLC, which offers additional inventory slots for either $7 or the purchase of the Digital CE. His complaint is that the game’s inventory management is cumbersome and restrictive with the only viable solution coming in the form of paid content above and beyond the cost of the game.

Gerog Zoeller of Bioware sent him a pointed response explaining that the decision to add inventory options via DLC stemmed from feedback received by early reviewers of the game and a desire to give players something, “cool…for your own keep.” Georg explains that during the development there were “camp storage chests”, but unforeseen bugs found late in the game’s development left them on the cutting room floor. He maintains that the inventory system as it exists in the final version was balanced as per Bioware’s design, but that players who purchased the DLC would get the bonus storage mostly as a value add and not out of “bilking” their customer base.

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