The announcement of Mass Effect 2's new Cerberus Network was left pretty vague, and left us with a lot of questions. EA, at the time, was tight-lipped about them when asked, but we're starting to get more details that paint a complete picture of how Cerberus will be used in the game. Joystiq reports that DLC through Cerberus will be free, but other for-pay downloadable content will also be made available that doesn't require Cerberus access.
"We'll definitely have for-pay DLC down the road too," said Dr. Greg Zeschuk. "It's not going to be all free DLC for Mass Effect 2 -- far from that. There'll be paid DLC packs, and there'll be stuff available through Cerberus as well." So essentially, it seems the Cerberus Network will act as lifetime access to any free goodies BioWare puts out -- likely smaller items like armor or weapons. But if you didn't buy it new and don't care for using Cerberus, you can still access any of the planned paid DLC, which will probably consist of larger content like mission packs.
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