Release Date for Earth DLC for multiplayer?

It's confirmed officially to be coming out next week, the 17th for exactly 0 microsoft points.  I give bioware credit for free DLCs, wonder how they're doing it when no one else could.

Agree with Slater - They do the same with the EA sports games, people go nuts for the "random pack" and buy them with M$ points.

Mass Effect 3: Earth is available on July 17th for Xbox 360 and PC worldwide. For PlayStation 3 owners the pack will be available on July 17th in North American and July 18th in Europe. Mass Effect 3: Earth is available to download at no additional charge.

The pack includes:

• Three New Maps – With the fate of the galaxy at stake, Earth’s military efforts have concentrated on three strategic locations. Defend Firebase Rio, home to the N7 training facility, along with Firebase Vancouver and Firebase London in the last stand for mankind.
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• New Array of Playable N7 Characters – Step into the boots of the Alliance’s most elite military unit with the N7 Demolisher Engineer, N7 Destroyer Soldier, N7 Fury Adept, N7 Sentinel Paladin, N7 Shadow Infiltrator and N7 Slayer Vanguard.
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• New Powerful and Unique Weapons – Lay waste to the enemy by unlocking the N7 Piranha Shotgun, N7 Typhoon Assault Rifle and Acolyte Pistol.

  

  

  
• New Powerful Upgrades – Outfit your weapons with 12 new modifications and fortify your gear with 11 unique upgrades to defeat even the toughest foes.
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• New “Platinum” Difficulty – Conquer bronze in your sleep? Take down Silver with one hand? Beat Gold without breaking a sweat? Then grab your friends and test your skills on the brand-new Platinum difficulty. 
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• New In-Mission Objective – Randomly occurring during waves 3, 6 and 10, this new objective will challenge teams to keep a targeted agent alive by protecting and escorting them to a designated extraction zone on each map.
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When is Mass Effect 3: Earth available?
Mass Effect 3: Earth is available on July 17th for Xbox 360 and PC worldwide. For PlayStation 3 owners the pack will be available on July 17th in North American and July 18th in Europe.

Crikey.

So this looks cool and all, but it sounds like most of the stuff will be "N7". Hopefully that does not = Ultra Rare. If so, they better have an Ultra Rare pack that you can buy... Im not even close top all the Gold stuff yet!

So some Boiware guy said on twitter the characters will not be ultra rare. We shall see...