From the trailer it looks like this box set will have the Duel Pistols powerset in it.
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My pessimistic meter is ringing a bit, though. Guess NCSoft's investment in this game is to make a bunch of cool stuff and make us pay over and above our $15 a month for it. *sighs* Maybe I'm reading the e-mail wrong, but this sounds like a paid expansion, since they're comparing it to COV's release. Not so keen on that. I just wish they'd make up their minds as to if this game would be a pay per month or pay for expansions.
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This is definitely a retail box, GP, but it looks like we're getting a whole new "City" of content: Praetoria. Notice the new skyline in the Going Rogue logo. We'd never get this amount of content for free.
As far as a new AT, the marketing survey leaked last year (which seems eerily accurate now) did talk about a Spy AT. My guess is that's what we'll get.
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
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From the trailer it looks like this box set will have the Duel Pistols powerset in it.
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I saw that. It will probably have Demon Summoning as well.
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
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Hopefully Praetoria will have a lot of new content in the way of missions, mission art and possibly a TF.
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A TF? If this is equivalent to the CoV box, I'm expecting 6 TFs along with new Respec Trials. 
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Watch out......Mental is in full-on fanboi mode
I've already forgotten about most of you
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Watch out......Mental is in full-on fanboi mode
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Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Here's a link to the article about last years survey. And here's the list of possible features for the expansion:
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1.) New high level Space Station Zones (PVE, PVP, & Co-op)
2.) Characters that do not wish to change sides are rewarded by becoming exemplary heroes or villains, and earning rewards not available any other way
3.) Heroes and villains who go to the other side can also act as Double-Agents
4.) Character Creator 2.0 includes Powers Customization, allowing players to customize not only the character, but also the actual look of its powers
5.) Players undertake missions that define their character's morality and steer them in a more heroic or villainous direction
6.) By switching sides (going from good to bad or bad to good), players can access content "on the other side" (heroes can experience villain zones and content, and villains can experience hero zones and content)
7.) Completely new low-level player experience/zones for new characters in which new characters do not begin a hero or villain, rather become one or the other through early gameplay
8.) New Spy Archetype, Power Sets & Costumes
9.) Universal Enhancement Slots - at level 50, these enhance powers to the character, essentially bringing them to a hypothetical "Level 60" once they have earned all ten slots
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I'm not delirious enough to think we'll get all of this, but I am giddy enough to hope we will!
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Red side or Blue side now we get PURPLE SIDE ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH
once a villain always a villain
Im not sure about this !!
Why have it when we can pick if we want to be a hero or a villain We can team with heroes in Cimerora why have heroes walking around Grandville or villains in Periguine Isle
Is this what going rogue means
Or will there be a parallel universe called Rogue where we can have a happy hour and kill the opposite side or team with them at will. I need more info and i need it now
That was just the stuff in that survey released like a year ago, that Article is mostly speculation.
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That was just the stuff in that survey released like a year ago, that Article is mostly speculation.
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Speculation, but we do know that side switching will be in the expansion, so it's not a stretch to think other items on that list will be included. Also, the info about the MA was pretty much spot on, so I have a higher degree of confidence in this intelligence.
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
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Red side or Blue side now we get PURPLE SIDE ARRRRRGGGGHHHHH
once a villain always a villain
Im not sure about this !!
Why have it when we can pick if we want to be a hero or a villain We can team with heroes in Cimerora why have heroes walking around Grandville or villains in Periguine Isle
Is this what going rogue means
Or will there be a parallel universe called Rogue where we can have a happy hour and kill the opposite side or team with them at will. I need more info and i need it now
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My initial stab at this is that everyone (red + blue) will have access to Pratoria, and in that City, you will be able to mess around with your alignment. If you enter as a Hero, then go Bad, when you return to the "real" world you will be in the Rogue Isles. So, no, "heroes" will not be wandering about RI, only fallen heroes who are now villains.
It also sounds like you can go to RI (or Paragon) and be a double agent, so I'm guessing you can switch sides multiple times.
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Yeah but your getting ahead of yourself, even if that stuff is released it will not be released anytime soon.
Going Rogue will prolly take about half a year the rest I doubt it sees the light of day before 2011.
If the game is still around then.
They have to have been working on this behind the scenes. Notice the content-light issues of recent memory: I13, I14, I15 (we were right, GP! 
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Because of that, I think it has the potential to include many of these features beside the new city and side-switching. Power customization sounds like a stretch, but it's possible.
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"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
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They have to have been working on this behind the scenes. Notice the content-light issues of recent memory: I13, I14, I15 (we were right, GP! ).
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I know. I'm interested to see what they come up with this, and hope that it will be coming out this year, too. A paid for by us expansion still makes me wonder where NCSoft's investment in this game is. It's probably another one of those things where they inaccurate words to describe what they are shooting for (see "Epic AT," where people wonder why their Kheldian doesn't have an "I win" button). Sure, they're "investing" in the game by creating a new expansion, but that's not quite the impression given when they tried to emphasize NCSoft's investment in the game.
Anyway, as everyone is pointing out, this has the potential to be a sizeable release like COV, so it should be interesting to see where they lead us. I'm still more inclined to think we'll have access to a new Praetorian AT than a spy class, just because there have been rumors of Praetorian stuff with Cimerora, etc. The devs do make pretty good content, so I'm keen on seeing where this goes (and hopefully it will come sooner rather than later).
Oh, looking WAY back earlier in the thread: Smurphy, I meant if there are any disparities between ATs redside and blueside, they'll be highlight by putting them together even more. People are already inclined to complain about some things (Scrappers vs. Tankers), so I'm sure they'll have even more things to talk about now (some real, some whining). Heh.
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I think this is a terrible idea and will kill CoH
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
j/k cant wait to see what is really going to be in it. wonder if it is coming out when CO does.
�The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
@Mr. Magnifico
Yeah, there was a lot of speculation as to whether they would release something at the same time as CO, so this might be it. Or they might release it a bit after to entice people back, when they see how not fun CO is, how it has new MMO kinks to work out, etc.
And as for the OP, read that title carefully, or we're all going "rouge." No thanks on that one.
Guide: Tanking, Wall of Fire Style (Updated for I19!), and the Four Rules of Tanking
Story Arc: Belated Justice, #88003
Synopsis: Explore the fine line between justice and vengeance as you help a hero of Talos Island bring his friend's murderer to justice.
Grey Pilgrim: Fire/Fire Tanker (50), Victory
It won't release by July, but they could easily start the Closed Beta by then and release enough details so that it will be on our radar.
Agua Man lvl 48 Water/Electric Blaster
"To die hating NCSoft for shutting down City of Heroes, that was Freedom."
Ok I watched the video on the website and it looks freakin awesome. Is the dude really Foreshadow? Kinda looks like him but I thought his powers were ma/sr.
I bet this is coming sooner than a lot of people think. This is their answer to the upcoming competition but I15 isn't even out yet so it could be really far out.
CoV was way over a year after it was announced, I think. Posi said that they were done up to I17 and working on I18 so maybe it is closer than we all think. New hires is doing their thing!
I'm excited either way and this should be some awesome stuff. Been dying for some new content and to see where the storyline is going in this game.
�The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
@Mr. Magnifico
From the press release
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Going Rogue will also introduce two primary new fictional characters representative of this alignment shift in the game's lore: Maelstrom, a pistol-wielding hero gone rogue, and Desdemona, a demon-summoning villain who has been redeemed.
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/em looks at Des
/em looks at press release
/em eats some pie and thinks about it.
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From the press release
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Going Rogue will also introduce two primary new fictional characters representative of this alignment shift in the game's lore: Maelstrom, a pistol-wielding hero gone rogue, and Desdemona, a demon-summoning villain who has been redeemed.
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/em looks at Des
/em looks at press release
/em eats some pie and thinks about it.
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I raised an eyebrow at that part, too. 
This might not be out for a year. They may have leaked it now to put and end to the farming MA stuff and take attention away from the release of CO which will be Soon.
Start putting away a dollar a week and you might have enough saved up by the time this comes out. How anyone expects stuff to be free forever, on their $15 a month, is beyond me. BTW, most games are pay by the month AND pay for expansions. The players here that have never played any other MMO are spoiled.
Yeah just read the announcement they posted. Probably won't be for awhile. I am still excited. Open Beta for it as well.
�The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
@Mr. Magnifico
Eh, $15/month is a lot of money over time. It's like buying a whole new game every 3 months. Servers don't cost that much to run (real games can run them for free!), and even the GM staff is pretty minimal from what I've been able to determine. CoH may be cheap my MMO standards, but it's still expensive compared to buying full on boxed games.
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From the press release
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Going Rogue will also introduce two primary new fictional characters representative of this alignment shift in the game's lore: Maelstrom, a pistol-wielding hero gone rogue, and Desdemona, a demon-summoning villain who has been redeemed.
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/em looks at Des
/em looks at press release
/em eats some pie and thinks about it.
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Aren't these characters already in the game? Desdemona has been there since CoV launched.
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I didn't get anything about this.
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Same here...
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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