8 Video Games That Made You Pay For Essential Features - Commenter Edition

6. Dragon Age: Inquisition - The Real Ending

Dragon Age: Inquisition isn’t the first game to put significant narrative endgame content into a DLC and it won’t be the last, but it is the one I’ve decided to put on this list so let’s talk about it.

The Trespasser DLC came out almost a year after Dragon Age: Inquisition launched and while it’s a fantastic add-on, that sort of makes its lack of inclusion in the original game even worse. As does the fact that now we know the narrative setup for the next game in the series, it’s basically essential to play so you know what’s going on in Dragon Age: Dreadwolf.

Trespasser takes place years after the events of the main game but connects several vital narrative dots, gives you a more complete final chapter with the companions you’ve come to know and love, and rounds out Inquisition’s somewhat lacklustre conclusion. The fact that this one cost players $15 on top of the full priced game they’d just finished isn’t great but that’s not even the worst of it.

The DLC only released on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, so if you were one of those who played Inquisition on PS3 or Xbox 360 you were bizarrely out of luck if you wanted to play the game’s crucial final chapter.