User blog comment:The Milkman/Random Rambling: Should PS3 See Free DLC?/@comment-58.164.236.14-20120930093118/@comment-3492791-20121003063504

The ME3 ending was what it was. It wasn't some horrible atrocity that ruined the entire series. The only real complaint people had was that the different endings seemed the same. People felt that since not every single choice they ever made didn't factor into the ending, that it was horrible. And thus the giant idiotic masses rose from the depths of the internet in protest and Bioware caved to save face.

Very few people seemed to even acknowledge the massive plot holes the ending left. EC sort of helped to fill some of them, but not much. Leviathan in an effort to sort out the rest only made it worse by adding more.

EC was free because they got so much bad press from the whole incident that they really had no choice but to give it as a gift. I'm not sure if all the free multiplayer DLC was a part of the whole "sorry mode" phase, or they just made more than enough money off all those micro-transactions. Besides, it was only some slideshows, a few extra cutscenes, and like a collective 5 minutes of extra dialogue.