For people still mad about Tira being DLC, maybe you should read this interview Kayane did since it lets you know why
It offers a PR friendly excuse - but the excuses whether you believe them or not do not address the fundamental issue.
You buy a game it should be the best product the publisher can put out. Almost everything they can squeeze in between the initial meetings to it going gold should be funnelled into making the best game they can possibly put on that disc/download - anything else is a compromise. and portioning off content for DLC is a compromise that exploits the faithful customer.
I wouldn't have had the slightest problem if they showed a graphic of Tira and any number of other characters as PLANNED DLC, that once the game was gold they'd start working on further value to be added (and sold) to a great base game. Even if Tira doesn't suit the story or something - that she was
demonstrated playable it means something else wasn't done in order to make her playable.
And he's full of it anyway, if she's available day 1 she could have been in a day 1 patch. If she didn't fit the narrative she could have simply been presented as someone outside of it (would anyone here seriously rather NOT have a character available because they didn't fit story mode).
The reason I don't think you have a problem with it
@KasumiLover is you're looking at it from the perspective of what you are willing to pay. If it doesn't hurt your pocket that's gravy - but this really isn't just about the customer putting their hand in their pocket. its about publishers testing methods of putting THEIR hands in our pockets, at the products expense. I don't really begrudge them that, I'm conservative leaning economically, but the squeezing will start taking it's toll and if we don't push back they'll keep pushing till they go too far for you too. what does this trend look like in the next game, and the next. because business doesn't pick a plum, like it and walk away, its picks another, and another... until there's a consequence they don't like, ie a financial one.