Mass Effect DLC... Reset to n00b

If true, this is just silly.

Seriously, this is one of those things where I feel completely at ease blaming marketing. I can, because I'm in marketing. Either somebody's rushing the content through development, or somebody's not standing up for the customer and saying "Um, maybe customers should be able to use an existing character?"

And both of those possibilities can be laid square at the feet of marketing.

I'm certain that there are lots of development difficulties that I don't know about, but this is either due to boneheaded marketing or the odd possibility that Mass Effect shipped without the capability to slipstream in DLC. In that case, marketing was STILL asleep at the wheel by allowing it to roll that way, but when ship comes to shove, sometimes those considerations fall by the wayside.

Sheesh.

Sheesh Again. Edited to say "Whoops." All you need is to reload a save where you've got a spaceship.