Fighting games generally don't have that much development time. SCV took 9 months. DOA6 will be fine. What I'm concerned about is game mechanic balance. I hope TN hosts a beta of some sort for tweaking purposes.
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Its going to be free to play again, thats the only reason.
Although they can reach the deadline in time by reusing any assets they have lying around.