The Mass Effect: Legendary Edition will be releasing with over 40 pieces of DLC, but one glaring omission will be the Pinnacle Station downloadable content from the first game. The Pinnacle Station DLC isn’t that interesting, so players won’t be missing much, but purists may be upset. The reason it will not be included in the Legendary Edition is because the data is corrupt. They were not the ones who developed it; Demiurge Studios was. Bioware requested the data for the Legendary Edition, but when they received it, it was unplayable. It wasn’t that Bioware wanted to omit the piece of DLC; they simply had no choice. In order to include it, they would have had to rebuild it from scratch, which would have been less than ideal and simply take up resources. Mac Walters, the director for the game, explained the situation to Game Informer.
“It would basically take us another full six months just to do this with most of the team we’ve got. I wish we could do it. Honestly, just because this is meant to be everything that the team ever created, brought together again – all the single-player content. And so, leaving it all on the cutting-room floor, it was heartbreaking.”
Pinnacle Station was one of two DLC packs for the first Mass Effect game. The DLC for the original game was rather weak and didn’t influence the overall story that was told over the course of the trilogy, so it’s not a huge loss. As long as we get the DLC content from Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3, I’ll be content. The fact that Pinnacle Station will be absent from Mass Effect: Legendary Edition isn’t a big deal.