Well this is confidence for ya. Final Fantasy XIII battle director (what a job title) Yuji Abe says Square Enix’s epic action-roleplaying game won’t be getting downloadable content (DLC) after release because it’s already “the complete package.”

Final Fantasy XIII is all that and a bag of chips according to Square Enix.

In an interview with Sony social media specialist Chris Morrell – posted to the official PlayStation blog – Abe responded to questions about rumors of excised content, and its possible return in the form of downloadable expansions or extensions. “Regarding the DLC content, we feel that the final product is 100% enjoyable,” said Abe, calling the game as it stands a “complete package” and confirming Final Fantasy XIII publisher Square Enix has no plans to release DLC “at this time.”

PC World reported while this course of action is fair enough, “it’s kind of a head-scratcher” all the same. “Why,” they ask, “wouldn’t Square Enix hop on the downloadable bandwagon, when other publishers are making a killing offering everything from superficial Marketplace add-ons to full-blown expansions?”
The suggestion from PC World is that Square Enix may have “overextended” themselves, pointing out that “Once Final Fantasy XIII ships and the media honeymoon’s past, all eyes shift to the next two major installments, Final Fantasy Versus XIII Versus (for PS3 only) and its portable peer, Final Fantasy Agito XIII for the PSP”.
Sounds like a reasonable theory to us, but then again, would you doubt the words of a battle director? Would you?