StaticCat

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As for the game being a stand alone or just a expansion, CoV is defiantly a Stand Alone game and not an expansion regardless as to what the CoV website infers...

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I have to sort of disagree with you there. Someone coined the phrase "Expansalone" (Not sure who, someone help me out there), and that would best describe the CoV. Yes there is Stand Alone content, but according to everything that is being said, there are somethings that are included with the game that they are not sure whether you will have to buy to get or if they will simple add the content to CoH (SuperGroup Bases was the one that I remember being tossed around). So everything is still speculation on whether it will be a Stand Alone or a Expansion/Stand Alone.

I did see somewhere that they were thinking that the monthly fee covers all, regardless of if you own CoH or Cov or Both. Now as far as raising the fee? I have not heard that, but I could understand if they do. It would help to prevent a degredation of either product.

Here was what was being said prior to update 2:
found in http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showf...part=1#2028144
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GD: There's also the City of Villains expansion...

JE: That's due out next year. Obviously, you get to be the bad guy, and it's going to be when we introduce PvP (player versus player) on a large scale in the city. We'll probably be introducing it in an arena sooner than you think... but basically, it's where players get to be a supervillain.


GD: Is it an entirely different game?


JE: This is one for the business guys, but let me tell you how I want to design it: It's going to be a standalone game, so you can buy City of Villains and play it and interact with the players in City of Heroes, but you just can't be a hero -- you can't build a hero and you can't go through the hero track. It's one subscription fee -- $14.95 a month regardless of whether you have City of Heroes, City of Villains, or both.


GD: And that'll all be in the same world?


JE: We'll be opening up new areas of the world that you won't be able to get to unless you own City of Villains.


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