Dead or Alive 5 developer Team Ninja has said it has no plans to offer paid DLC characters for the hotly-anticipated brawler.
Speaking with VideoGamer, studio boss Yosuke Hayashi made it clear he’s no fan of selling extra fighters post-launch, labelling the process as unfair to those who haven’t bought new characters.
“We have no plans to sell characters as downloadable content,” said Hayashi-san.
“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.”
Elsewhere, the developer observed that making the character roster a balanced affair is tough enough as it is without offering extra combatants some players may or may not have.
Dead or Alive 5 will be punching and kicking its way onto PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in September 2012.