DLC Characters Won’t Be Joining Dead or Alive 5

By Eric L. Patterson, News Editor
Posted on June 19, 2012 AT 05:54pm

A few months back, Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada said that Tekken Tag Tournament 2 wouldn’t be going the route of offering purchasable DLC characters. Now, another developer has made that commitment as well.

Speaking to videogamer.com, Team Ninja head Yosuke Hayashi promised that Dead or Alive 5‘s character roster would be complete the moment you purchase the game—so players needn’t worry about additional for-pay choices coming later.

“We don’t feel that it’s right for fighting games,” Hayashi told VideoGamer. “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.”

Source: Videogamer.com

Eric L. Patterson got his start via self-publishing game-related fanzines in junior high, and now has one goal in life: making sure EGM has as much coverage of niche Japanese games as he can convince them to fit in. Eric’s also active in the gaming community on a personal level, being an outspoken voice on topics such as equality in gaming and consumer rights. Stalk him on Twitter: @pikoeri. Meet the rest of the crew.

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