Depends on how you interpret it. If they are discussing content that will be DLC now, but have no plans to release it, then they could be considered holding it back now since they are still planning on it later. The only way they can truly make this claim is if all content they discuss now makes it into the game and they begin DLC planning once it's released.

@Christopher: I interpret is as "nothing we can have ready for launch is being held back and put in a DLC instead."

Why? What possible reason would you give these guys the benefit of the doubt. If they've never done that sort of thing before fine or maybe if they did it once and apologized constantly fair enough but we have them (Darth Vader) and EA (Darth Sidious) behind them.

Or are people going to be blind because it's Battlefront and with the amount of hype behind it they'll think the game will be perfect....blocking out any negativity because they don't want it to be bad.

That leads to hype which turns into the game being "over hyped". Being over hyped leads to expectations being very high. High expectations leads to mass disappointment and disappointment leads to most of us agreeing how the game was a let down with the countless articles stating the same thing shortly after release

Let me ask you something; what year did games start costing $60? I'll answer it for you 2005. 2005!!! Adjusted for inflation a game cost under $55. What in the hell would you like developers and publishers to do to make money to stay in business??? Gamers want bigger, badder, better looking games yet don't care how much that costs. Instead we come here and complain that a company that spends years making a game tries to make a profit on it.

I don't know if people are dumb, greedy, or both but these companies have every right to earn a fair profit and on top of that we should support them so they keep making games.

If you want DLC to stop it's easy; let them charge $70-$80 for a game. If you don't want that then let them do what they can to stay in business. Over the past couple years we've lost over a dozen studios to financial woes. Some of those are brought on by them making bad games, others by mismanagement, and yet others are from the need to sell well over 2 million copies of a AAA game to make a profit. With pirating and used game sales (don't even get me started on that) it's damn near impossible. I mean the fact that the wit her will have free DLC makes me nervous. As I want them to make as much money as possible. If they create something they should be able to charge for it. And if you think $60 is the FAIR number for what they created you are blind.

Lol what, Dice is honest and open? I still remember interview with very "honest" guy from dice Patrick Bach von Dick, before bf4 launch. Especially that part about "perfect" netcode.