User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/Prothean Squadmate is Officially DLC/@comment-4820017-20120224125502

Lets remember there is going to be The Alliance Network, there will be the ocasional free dlc. But does everyone know that Bioware had began working on The Prothean dlc after Mass Effect 3 was finished? This was in January and was done by another team within Bioware. If they were to intergrate it into the game it would have been released later like perhaps April or May. Which they couldn't due to the official release date and other reasons. The Prothean has also been made dlc so that newcomers will not have been confused to certain events that happened in ME1 and ME2. If you have the collecters edition you get it for free along with other dlc, which is fair seeing as to how much extra you have to pay. Even if you have to pay 800 points for those of you who got standard, you extras within the DLC, extra outfits for all squadmates, a new weapon (proably a heavy weapon, prothean perhaps). If the Prothean dlc was free they would possibly make it you would have to buy the outfit pack for 180 points.