The problem is we should not have to "let them know" companies should "know" this already on any multi platform franchise favoring a particular platform either blatantly or otherwise either through timed exclusive or totally exclusive content regardless of significance of said content benefits only one side and that's the company.
Sure it makes the company more money which might benefit later DLC or a Sequel, however all it does is divide the community and punish them for their choice of platform.It also harms the companies image by making it clear to customers that the company will favor whichever company can throw the most money at them instead of doing thew honorable thing and treat all platforms equally.EA has a bad reputation as it is doing things like this only hurts it further, Maybe its about time EA/Bioware followed CD Project Red's example of refusing to make any platform exclusive content and no timed exclusive content.
While personally I view consoles as a waste of good silicon and a "blight" on the industry that has resulted in game companies adopting some very questionable ethics such as Day1 DLC,micro transactions etc, I firmly believe that Console users should not be punished because they either can't afford a PC or are too intimidated to build one so I'd be equally as mad if Bioware made some PC exclusive DLC or gave PC users a timed exclusive on some content.
I guess the short of this semi-rant is that maybe employees and customers should do more to make the higher ups aware that this kind of practice is morally and ethically wrong its the capitalist equivalent of racism to give one subset of the community "preferential" treatment.Fans of the franchise like myself who buy anything Dragon Age do so because we love the franchise it means a lot to us and saddens us when it risks becoming tainted because the execs care only for profit at the expense of all else.
Naturally this leads to hard working people like yourself sometimes getting the short end of the stick when the big bosses fail to see "sense" and refuse to listen which is sad because if sales slumped they'd likely layoff staff and shut studios instead of changing their "attitude" because to them we are just a number/statistic/metric and walking cash machine
While I agree with most of what you said here, microtransactions are hardly the resuly of gaming consoles. Mobile and "Free to play" gaming is where microtransactions have spawned from. Consoles were largely free of microtransactions (until this generation, because the big boys weren't getting a cut before). DLC was not always this bad. See expansions vs horse armour.
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