DLC is like ANY commercial product genre, there is good and bad, cheap and expensive, value and rip-off.

I love a lot of DLC like Mass Effect 2's, Fallout 3/New Vegas' and Dragon Age 2's. I also hated a lot of DLC like Oblivion's and Batman's.

All depends.

Someone else bought the DLC and saved the aliens in your place. Xb

My paying hero ;p

Come on let me know what DLC I missed in ME1 I'd really like to know o.O I honestly can't work out what race you mean :S

I think they mean the Rachni, and as I recall that was part of the main game, not the DLC.

Also AFAIK them "appearing"(not saying how) in ME2 is dependant on you saving them in ME1 or playing ME2(I think) with a default play through(i.e. using no saves from ME1 to continue in which you didn't save them.) As such if you play ME2 in one of those ways the race will be in ME2.

Can't be he said there were loads walking around in ME2 o.O like I said there's only 2 mentions of the rachni in ME2 and you see none.

Maybe they thought the Batarians in ME1's DLC were about to go extinct/confused them with the part of the Rachni plotline and thought if you killed the Batarians in ME1's DLC that they should be extinct and not in ME2?

The only good DLCs I can think of are the Borderlands ones and the Fallout 3 ones. They have significant contents, their quantity is about right and they do not make you feel "THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE ORIGINAL RELEASE"......
I guess I prefer DLCs not too much connected to the original storyline and content. In that way, DLCs is a bonus in my eyes, rather than an essential piece being cut out.

And I'm against day 1 DLC in general.

I paid full price for DA:O (The Collector's Edition) at launch. It included "The Stone Prisoner" (a bit short - but enjoyable - and since I like to play a wimpy mage makes a fine addition to the team). I also, have purchased all the DLC as it was released - and I thoroughly enjoyed Warden's Keep. I do not feel slighted or put upon by "The Company" as it was my choice to make the Purchase(s). I usually pick a game to be my "Release Day" game for the year and wait on everything else to go down in price. 2009 - DA:O, 2010 - Divinity II, 2011 - The Witcher 2, 2012 - ? (Maybe Dark Eye: Demonicon. I tend to go all out on my yearly pick and bide my time on everything else. I am looking forward to the Fallout NV Ultimate Edition and never bought a Neverwinter or either Oblivion or Morrowind or even Fallout until the Game of the Editions were released. I think we as gamers need to take some personal responsibility in our buying and stop putting all the blame on these companies. They are in business to make money - that's the bottom line - and we need to realize they have found a business model that makes them more money because they know the majority of folks have no control over the impulse to buy. We just need to take control and limit what we buy either that or stop complaining.

I bought it a month after launch and hated it then too (on XBox 360, so there weren't any real technical issues). The only DLC I had for it was Stone Prisoner, but my opinion of the game hasn't changed much. It is a hair more playable on PC and with the patches they've made to smooth out the difficulty spikes. It's still not a very good game imo.

bah, grumpy

Then the strategy is to assume your always grumpy?

That could only loosely be termed a "strategy", but yeah, you get the idea at least.