'Mass Effect 3' day-one Dlc defended by BioWare

25 February 2012 2:56 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Mass Effect 3's day-one Dlc policy has been defended by developer BioWare. The title will launch with the 'From Ashes' add-on ready to download, but the studio claims it did not begin work on the expansion until after the main game was completed. "On [Mass Effect 3], content creators completed the game in January and moved onto the 'From Ashes' Dlc, free [with the Collector's Edition] or you can buy separately [sic]," executive producer Casey Hudson wrote on Twitter. "It takes about 3 months from 'content complete' to bug-fix, certify, manufacture, and ship game discs. In that time we work on Dlc. Dlc has fast [certification] and no [manufacturing], so if a team works very hard, they can get (more) »

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