@CyberEvil thank you for keeping this thread open.
I'd like to see Alpha return, she was definitely a fun character to use and my #2 after Kasumi, I guess there's a slim chance of her returning though, which is a shame. Other characters I would also like to see make the cut would be Leon, old man Gen Fu, Momiji and Rachel. The more the merrier I say, I also don't think they'll cut these characters. They can easily come back as a DLC, similar to how Tekken has made Anna, Lei Wulong, Armor King, Julia, Murdock as DLC. We all know that KT wouldn't miss out on how much money they can make out of that. Only time will tell, I have a feeling we will be seeing these characters return later on down the line, hopefully. Just my 2 cents everyone
I'm pretty sure Alpha 152 will be in the game.
Reason #1: She's one of the more popular characters. Here's a list I took from a few months ago of the PS4 character rankings. These numbers are the number of people that have played that character and won at least one match online. Lowest to Hightest.
Akira 2585
Bass 2724
Leon 2883
Gen Fu 3259
Bayman 4033
Raidou 4166
Jacky 4170
Pai 4251
Mai 4532
Eliot 4822
Sarah 4942
Brad Wong 5608
Ein 6109
Zack 6733
Rachel 6945
Lisa 7431
Naotora 7829
Lei-Fang 7930
Nyotengu 7960
Helena 8866
Alpha 10075
Kokoro 10322
Rig 10618
Mila 10183
Jan Lee 10538
Tina 10958
Phase4 11489
Momiji 13576
Christie 13986
Hayate 17736
Honoka 17955
Marie Rose 18127
Hitomi 19513
Hayabusa 31192
Ayane 34230
Kasumi 44031
Alpha is 16/36 so I think that's pretty high. Akira is probably the lowest because he's the hardest to use and the ninjas are the highest because they are always free in the Free to play version. So out of the DOA characters that haven't been announced in DOA6, the most to least popular are Momiji, Alpha, Rachel, Ein, Raidou, Gen Fu and Leon.
Reason #2: She has the most unique play style and there's no other character like her. If you play Ein, you still have Hitomi. If no Leon, then there's Bayman. And no Gen Fu, then there's Eliot who know has a few of Gen Fu's moves. But there is no one like Alpha 152.
Reason #3: She's the easiest character for them to implement in the game. She's Kasumi's character model and requires no new costume. Just the jello skin color lol. They can just give her Kasumi's Fatal Rush like they did in with her Power Blow in DOA5. She doesn't require any voice acting.
Reason #4: They never show her die in the DOA5 story. You just see Kasumi's clone stand over and probably realize that she is a clone of Kasumi as well. Similar to Lisa, if they don't actually show or acknowledge that the character is died, she's most likely alive.
And she's probably not included in the 25 costumes that come in the Deluxe pack. They have given her costumes before but I'm guessing that she'll just have different skin colors like she did in the initial release of DOA5. And there's no reason to sell a different skin color especially with the new costume editing mode.
I also believe Phase 4 and Nyotengu aren't part of the 25 character costumes. I'm guessing that e Momiji and Rachel will be the last two characters announced to make the 25 initial roster. Momiji was voted into DOAX3 so she's pretty popular and I doubt that they'll exclude her. Plus, off of the charcter ranking I posted above she was 9/36.