That certainly seems to be the case with EA. They claim it's to limit the value of second hand copies. But they're making pretty much every different version of the game unique. So nobody gets the full thing. Not even those who buy the Collector's Edition brand new.

I just wish Dragon Age had more free DLC. :/
$5 for Return to Ostagar was terrible.

If you want used games cheap, don't get them from stores that sell second hand games. You should look at online auction sites instead.

Nifty. I liked the Mako and really missed it in ME2.
As for the complaints about free DLC: Do you also hate it when retail boxes come with manuals, posters, cloth maps, patches (clothing kind), or stickers? I mean, those are incentives to buy the game new, since you might get a "used" manual and the like.
You guys are right about one thing though. Publishers and devs have no real rights to profit beyond the first sale of an item. But guess what? Consumers have no real rights to get content that isn't in the box/sku/whatever they pay for. So why should someone who buys it second-hand be entitled to all the shiny-content?

What shit? They give you Shale for free with a new copy of the game. This was the only content that was cut from the original, and it's free to new game purchasers.
Warden's Keep is free for the Digital Deluxe (Collector's Edition) to compensate for the lack of physical goodies you get with the retail Collector's Edition.
All other promo content can be DLed and installed (feral wolf charm, memory band, etc.) no matter where you bought your game.
I'm not seeing the big issue here.

I can tell you the reason: EA's office in Brazil has been closed. EA games will have to be imported now, sort of. There are rumors that Mass Effect 2 might be released around here in a few months. :-(

This gives me a reason to continue Shepards adventure for n:th time. And "free" is always nice.

The DLC they advertised in the game in the most blatant and atmosphere shattering way they could find. Also the fact that they made content exclusive to the digital version rather than lowering the price to reflect the lesser value. The collector's edition, by any realistic standards, should have been a complete version of the game containing all of the 0 day content.

All of the versions are complete versions of the game, but this will turn out to be one of those discussions where we're not going to agree, so I'll just leave it at saying "I disagree", although I do concur that the in-game advertising sucked. But I believe they're likely to go a different route in the future after the feedback they got on that.

If the game is openly telling you it's incomplete then it's only fair to conclude that it's incomplete. Let's hope we never see a repeat of that. Bioware do seem to be good at listening to their fans. Mass Effect 2 proved that extremely well. But yes, there's no point in dragging out what amounts to personal opinion. While I do wish more gamers were turned off by bad business practices, I don't expect everyone to see things my way.

That's a pretty loose interpretation. The advertising was telling you there's extra content available. I'm not seeing how you interpret that as them saying the game is incomplete.

By the fact that it's actually an NPC in the game telling you that. Simply leaving an Extra Content option in the menu is all fine and well as you're not actually playing the game at that point. Plus there could be new content released later on which would make that a useful thing to keep tabs on.
But once you're actually playing the game, the only excuse for something as game-breaking as blatantly telling you you're going to have to fork over money to continue that particular quest would be if you're playing a demo and the NPCs are used to explain why there are limitations. Alternatively, if the game was free and relied on microtransactions, that would be fine too.
That would be fine. But paying for the full game, never mind the Collector's Edition should mean that it at least feels like a full and complete game.

On another note, it seems Bioware has read the Valve and Stardock Book of Anti-Piracy (i.e. keep the new content coming and always leave the pirates with a defunct version).