Lots of speculation from everyone.
Honestly, I feel like nobody at EA or Bioware can be bothered to do anything about it at this point. It's an absolute mess, but maybe they've worked out that they probably wouldn't get any significant influx of sales if they fixed it. I've still never touched ME3's DLC (other than Javik), but I've been holding out for the trilogy remaster for years now, because I'm just not going to spend the cost of a new game on some DLC for a four-year-old game I didn't even like that much.
I wouldn't bother with Bioware DLC anyway judgining by the quality of those I got as part of their 10$ project
I'll harp on them forever until the remedy this situation. If they want me to finally shut up about it and stop pestering their poor customer service reps (or to stop sending their CEO letters in the mail), they need to do - at the bare minimum - a rerelease with all DLC included. I'm not even asking for a remaster (I totally am asking for a remaster), but the fact the there is no version of the trilogy released with all content and story chapters and characters included is beyond baffling.
And to address the comments above... this is both a sour opinion of me and at the same time a recommendation. I think almost every single solitary bit of DLC for ME3 (barring "Omega") is "vital" to the experience. ME3 is a vastly weaker, less satisfying game without Leviathan's lore making sense of things, without Javik there to provide a huge amount of lore to the Protheans, Reapers, and Asari, without the Extended Cut to patch up that original ending, and without Citadel - arguably the best bit of content in the whole franchise - providing the perfect emotional closure to the whole saga.
And that's what makes me so angry. ME3's content is pretty much essential, yet there is over $50 worth of it out there because it never goes on sale. It sucks that such vital, informative, and pretty significant content isn't included in any package of the Mass Effect series, since it elevates the whole game dramatically and vastly improves the experience (for me personally).
I've purchased the game for two friends and both of them balk at the DLC prices and haven't played the series, because they are aware of how important the DLC actually is - and it definitely is important - yet it never goes on sale.
It's so essential and so good, I honestly can't imagine folks at Bioware themselves are happy that it isn't part of the core experience and that EA keeps it sectioned off and held at ransom.
While ME1 is most deserving of the "remaster" treatment, ME3 is by far most deserving and needing a "complete package" iteration.
