Excitment... and FEAR.. about new "End Game" content..

While technically true, this is bull **** if it's the excuse they're using to shortchange us on GR content.

Sure, and the standalone required the extra ATs, which we aren't getting with GR. I don't see how it follows that we only get 1 - 20 (which is a miniscule amount of content in the grand scheme of things) and 50+ content (which we should have had a while ago).

I think they just havent announced the rest of the content yet. I don't know why anyone would express pleasure about just 1 to 20 content... Had I been at the Con, I would have tried to ever so politely explained how boring the rest of the game is at this point. 20+ 50s... pretty much dont ever want to do the existing content ever again. (but thats just everyone I know that plays this game) (may not be you and your friends)

That's what I assumed, but now I'm thinking I may be wrong... and that's bad news for GR.

Takes me under 2 hours to get to 20. If I really sit down and do it without PL.

It was only 3 guys... A Shield/Ice tank.. a Mind/FF troller.. both lvl 4... a lvl 18 warshade, and oh yeah, a lvl 4 Sonic/Traps Corr. So it was 4 guys. I'm still working on leveling 3 before GR. my Fire/Shield scrapper(35), a BS/SR stalker(27), and an Elec/Elec/Elec(41) blaster.

And, it's really not so much getting rid of, as postponing until i see what's happening with GR and the end game. I have OCD tendinces. It runs real bad in my family. So, ideally, i'd like to have all my guys at 50 when it launches... that a way, i can jump right into the end game, OR start a new guy in the new zone, and i won't have that annoying voice in the back of my head, the one that says, "your not done with this guy yet, finish him... FINISH HIM..."

Sides, the highest lvl one was 18, she was a warshade, and frankly, i wasn't feeling it. Prolly won't even remake her... The squids don't do alot for me... I have one lvl 50 Peacebringer, and no real desire to play a warshade... she'd been sitting around for years now... it was time to let go. heh.

It makes total sense - the theme of Going Rogue is moral choice and changing sides - once you've made your first choice in the GR tutorial to join the Resistance or Tyrant's thugs, you'll then get to travel to Primal Earth at level 20, where your experiences might make you change you morallity again - like a Resistance supporter might start to think that Tyrant's dictatorship might not be so bad compared to the chaos that's sometimes found in our world, and a supporter of Tyrant might find their ideas challenged by the freedom we enjoy here.

Positron said leaving Praetoria for Paragon City or the Rogue Isles is part of the GR storyline - my guess is that players who side with Tyrant will be sent to primal Earth as scouts for his invasion, and Resistance supporters will be sent here to try and get help, or to warn us about Tyrant's invasion plans.

Not having 1-50 content is not shortchanging anyone - the endgame contnet can quite easily be bigger than the 21-40 content of CoV, so GR would in fact have more content than CoV.

Well, technically, blue side and red side will be getting 7 new ATs each

I'm imaginaing that eventually they will have enough content to level from 1 to 50 in Preatoria, but maybe not righy off the bat. Even CoV was only 1 to 40 at first. Between lvl 1-20 worth of content, this new "end game" stuff, and go knows what else, they may not have had time to add much more. We don't know what else is involved in this. And frankly, the game needs, IMO of course, an fresh new starting zone, and stuff to do at the end of the game. The middle, goes by fast, and prolly has some of the most stuff to do. Maybe... that's a total guess. heh.

That's my take on it anyways.

No it isn't - it'll help sell more copies of CoH/V

7 new at's they don't have to build from scratch. It is kind of different..

So... you decide whether you join the Resistance or Tyrant's gang... then they banish you to another dimension that has nothing to do with that conflict...

SO not making any sense!

Still new-ish - people will be able to do those all-Defender LRSFs they've always dreamed of

It will in the sense that something is better than nothing, but for the longtimers here, GR really has to knock it out of the park, and unless the 50+ content is so fantastic that it really does amount to content from 20-30 for each character, then I don't think it will do that.

Side-switching alone isn't a draw for some people, and new lvl 1-20 content (which can be completed in a few days without any PL) certainly isn't going to do it. The success of the expansion will rest on the 50+ content now.

Because it's way bigger and more complex than any Issue

Positron promises it'll be fun - not Jack "fun", but fun fun

End game raid + 2 new powersets and 1 new zone?

That is the definition of 1 free issue.

It's an excuse to not have the last 30 levels of content in Praetoria. I'm certainly not jazzed to start off a completely new character with brand new content and then have to slog through Striga (or Talos, or what have you) for the billionth time.

I get the impression that the Posi Secret Project is coming out after GR, but I could be wrong.

It will

Also, GR is as much about new players as it is about the longer term players - GR is about store presence, shelf space, and selling a new, shinier version of the game - and the endgame content is meant to help hook the first-timers as much as it is to satisfy the long-termers.

There's a flood of new content post-GR for a start