Dead or Alive 5 Won't Feature "Unfair" DLC Fighters

Team Ninja boss Yosuke Hayashi has revealed he thinks adding characters to fighting games through downloadable content is "unfair."

Speaking to Videogamer, Hayashi stressed that the upcoming Dead or Alive 5 will not include any purchasable extra characters.  The developer cited Capcom's technique of locking extra content away on-disc as not being not being "the right way to go."

“ We feel like this is a kind of sport, and you don't change the rules for sports.

He explained, "We don't feel that it's right for fighting games.  We feel like this is a kind of sport, and you don't change the rules for sports. Everybody plays by the same rules. You don't have a 14-player soccer game versus an 11-player soccer game. That's just not fair.

"It's a similar thing to if certain people have all these characters and others don't. It makes it an unfair game, and we don't think that's the right way to go for fighting games.

"We have no plans to sell characters as downloadable content."

He added that this decision was partly influenced by the difficulties it would cause when balancing the game.  Citing a roster of 20 characters as being "a real challenge," he admitted that the amount of development time needed to balance 50 would be astronomical.

Last month, Capcom announced it was re-evaluating its stance regarding on-disc DLC and that players "are being heard."  The company has come under heavy fire in the past for putting content on the game disc behind a pay-wall.

Dead or Alive 5 is due out on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 in September.

Source : ign[dot]com