Well I would agree with you that we would be ripped off if the game was considered weak or bad, but I found myself loving the game and for that reason I bought the DLC (both Serah's new weapon and the Lightning+Amodar battle) I have to say I love having Light in my party, I have yet to beef her up with passives yet but I am fairly sure its safe to say she is going to be more powerful then (SPOILER)Twilight Odin, the alleged strongest recruit in the game she and Amodar have a max level of 13 and both come with a 6 slot ATB timer and Lights limit (as you may have guessed) is her One Man Army.

At the end of the day, companies do trout like this all the time, "spend this much to access new maps ect" which is exactly the same as "spend this much to access new monsters story and other cool stuff" the price for the DLC is 400ms points which is a tiny amount, and you get some cool stuff out of it... why should Square Enix be damned for wanting to make more money on a game that is already half decent? if (prays to god) a FFVII remake should ever happen, do you think SE would like the idea of putting DLC in that? I'm sure they will, and I'm also damned sure alot of fans would welcome something that would let them play the game a little longer, I'm not saying XIII-2 is as good as VII (heaven forfend) but in my opinion its still a great game that vastly makes up for the blunder that XIII was.

Oh and ftr, Light+Sunglasses = awesomeness.