It’s understandable that fans of the Uncharted series will never want their adventures with Nathan Drake to end. Sadly, for the single player mode in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception there will be no encore.
Naughty Dog broke the news that they wanted to supply fans with a complete game at launch. They did not want to create a giant story then break it off into small pieces that would be later used as DLC or cut a great idea short to make it fit into DLC. Community stategist Arne Meyer said, “Dialing back our ambition is difficult,” and Justin Richmond the game’s director explained it in greater detail.
“Whenever we sit down and think we should do some single-player DLC, someone pitches something and we realize — that’s a five hour level,” he said. “We’d rather build out another game than we would do episodic content. We’re so small that we can’t afford to have a whole team working on DLC.”
The approach is noble, and although fans would love more DLC you have to admire their ideals. Since they could just make whatever they want and almost anyone would gladly pay $9.99 for it.