User blog comment:The Milkman/Everybody Shut Up./@comment-4913722-20120527235508/@comment-4237253-20120529045135

1. Mass Effect 3 is the final entry of a planned trilogy. DLC should not be needed to fully understand the story. When we pay 60-80 dollars to hear a story, it needs to be complete.

2. Mass Effect 1 and 2 fully resolved their storylines. We got what we needed to know, and knowing what would happen after Shep was put under house arrest wasn't important at the time. The eventual fates of all the characters and the effects of my actions need to be known now. As I've said, this needs to be resolved without DLC. Add-ons should add more to my game, not fix or complete what's already there. That is the purpose of patches.