This is starting to sound a lot like Duke Nukem Forever

Jan 15, 2010 11:00 GMT  ·  By

BioWare has created a strong DLC policy for its games, and, while Mass Effect 2 has planned for it a long line of additional content, Dragon Age: Origins was one of the company's biggest first-hand experiences with the downlodable content approach. And if the day-one DLCs of Shale and Warden's Peak were a success, Return to Ostagar was plagued by unwanted events, mostly in the form of strange delays.

Strange, mostly because some of the delays were made public after Ostagar should have been ready. BioWare didn't announce that the DLC would be delayed, but that it was obviously missing when the day came. And, now, that it's finally ready to release it, Dragon Age: Origins Return to Ostagar has been pulled back down from Xbox Live. The announcement was made via the official forum, once again by the chipper Chris Priestly.

“This morning a title update on the Xbox 360 for Dragon Age: Origins was made available in preparation for the release of Return to Ostagar. This title update introduced a previously undetected issue that causes specialization classes to not work correctly in Dragon Age: Origins. We are removing Return to Ostagar from Xbox Live until the issue is resolved and are recommending that you do not download the title update. If you have already performed the update, we apologize for this and are working hard to ensure a fix is available as soon as possible.”

While this seems to be the case only for the Xbox 360 version of the game, the forum didn't specify the condition of the PC version. But the same people that made the first DLCs available for free to the PC community have already done the same with Ostagar, since last Friday, actually, and there haven't been any voiced complains about the DLC. While BioWare has promised to keep us posted on the Ostagar situation, things might take a while before the official word comes in.