Started Dead Space 2, reach the first store, there's a mountain of weapons and armor costing zero credits, wtf! I didn't remember that at all. So I go Google, there are quite a few threads asking the very same question. Turns out EA included all the DLC in a later patch, supposedly due to some disagreement with Valve.

Which kinda sucked, cause now there was all this late game gear available right from the beginning, killing immersion and the sense of progression.

Never fear, the Internet was already on it, and I quickly found a way to replace the .exe, tinker with some in-game files, and voila, Dead Space 2 as it was meant to be played, DLC-free.

Huh. Tinkering with in-game files to fix bugs or remove some undesirable nonsense took me way, way, waaaaaay back. What a blast from the past!

Jason Schreier directing a bunch of harassment at Jeff Grubb due to the nature of the specific Dead Space project EA Motive was working on (a sequel, a remake, etc) and exactly where in the timeline the labor on said project ceased such that it may or may not have constituted "being worked on" or "cancelled" wasn't on my bingo card for today, but here we are.