DLC: Developing a Loss of Credibility?

This is something you'll find a rant about on any forum involving any videogames created this generation: downloadable content, otherwise known as "DLC". [Note: How "downloadable content" becomes "DLC" instead of "DC", I don't know. Just roll with it.] The rants vary in their purpose: either a game lacks it and the fanbase wants it (Super Smash Bros. Brawl), a game has it and the fanbase dislikes what it got (Dragon Age: Origins), a game has it and it's controversial (pretty much any game with day-1 DLC) or a game had it, and now it's all being re-released in a "complete edition", thus alienating original purchasers.

In general, DLC has been known to bring out the worst in online personalities despite their valid appeal to sales. People argue over the merit of the DLC, over the developers' pure intentions versus the evil publishers', over the pricing, over the timing, over the notion that it might be on the disc, over the mere fact that they had the audacity to put in X instead of Y, when any true fan would clearly want Y... If you've been on a gaming forum, you've seen it. I don't need to explain it to you. You've likely even participated in one or more of these discussions. I know I have. (See: Marvel vs. Capcom 3's bulls***.)

But I'm not here to rant about the coming of a past gaming god who'll rid the world of its DLC sins. DLC isn't all bad. It isn't all good, either, but it's up to us as a community to decide if it's something we need to fix, or something we need to deal with before it's too late.