User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Prothean Squadmate is Officially DLC/@comment-1221773-20120222232942/@comment-1786741-20120223025424

Exactly Ironreaper, this is why automatically making the Prothean a dlc character is flawed in the first place. Then there's Gamble's rebuttal, which only makes things look worse. He talks about how this dlc wasn't completed until after the main game was finished when we were able to find voice files of him in the leaked beta around November. This shows that from the beginning Bioware intended this to be separate from the main game as a dlc cashcow, something that is unacceptable. You could argue that the Prothean is that big of a deal because he wouldn't affect the story all that much. Well, that just makes it WORSE. If you're going to add a freaking Prothean to the game, you might as well make him as awesome as the hype generated from the series teasing of the Protheans. Instead, he'll probably be pulled down to the level of Kasumi or Zaheed, and while it works for them it is far to much of a bit part for a PROTHEAN. Enjoy your money Bioware, I hope the hundreds of angry fans was worth it.