2014 FIFA World Cup dev explains why game isn't DLC

2014 FIFA World Cup is being made as a standalone release as 60% of users are brand new and don't own a FIFA game, according to producer Matt Prior.

Euro 2012 was the last big football tournament to be supported by EA Sports, and that was released as a downloadable expansion for FIFA 12.

However Prior says that was a big barrier for casual fans who just wanted to enjoy the extravagance of the big event.

"About 60% of our users are brand new, or they don't buy FIFA they just want to play the World Cup every four years," Prior told ArabicGamers.

"So for those people, the more casual guys, doing it as DLC is a big barrier because they can't walk through the shop and pick it up, they have to buy FIFA, then they have to go home and download the DLC.

"So for those guys it's not only a barrier, but it's actually more expensive."

Prior added that creating the game as DLC also limits what they can add in terms of content and size.

"We can't update AI. We can't have every national side in the world. We can't have the radio shows. All the new stadiums, we couldn't have all of those in there.

"This is a feature rich game with 10 modes, we couldn't do even close to that with DLC.

"And the World Cup is a massive event, one of the world's biggest sporting events, so to really do it justice as a massive event we really do have to do it as a full priced package to bring as much content as we can."

Yesterday we brought you the news that 2014 FIFA World Cup won't be localised into Arabic. We also revealed why the game won't be making an appearance on the next-gen consoles.

Click here to check out our hands-on preview with 2014 FIFA World Cup and hear our thoughts on how things are shaping up.

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