Bioware on how to milk gamers' pockets: day-one DLC, online passes, microtransactions

[SecondWar]

AndrewWK said:

SecondWar said:
The only Mass Effect 3 DLCs I have not bought (and will not) are the multiplayer weapons packs and the Firefight Pack. Why would I buy the weapons packs with real money, when just by playing the game (the entire reason I got it in the first place) will allow me to unlock them anyway? Also a few random weapons in a bundle in single-player don't cut it for me. Only way I would get them is in a pre-order bonus.

They Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer DLCs are all free, you can buy Bioware points for real money and purchase ingame packs. But this is absolutely no necessity.

I was aware of that, I was only refering to the equipment packs not the maps.

On that note, I'd say the Mass Effect 3 Online Pass is a fairly good one. Multiplayer may be locked if you don't have it, but all the map packs (so far at least) are free.