Issue 18 and Going Rogue Launch Address by Melissa "War Witch" Bianco

Hey, everyone!

I am so excited about introducing our newest expansion, City of Heroes: Going Rogue!! Everyone here at Paragon Studios has been working tirelessly on it, dedicating their time, creativity, and talent to ensure that it not only fulfills our promise of bringing you more of what you love but also creates a fun and unique experience for our veteran and new players alike! Missions! Zones! Going Rogue system! Villain Groups! Costumes! Emotes! (Okay, I could go on, but then it’ll just get silly). Our goal for this expansion was to reinvent City of Heroes and I truly believe we’ve achieved it.

There were times when I logged into our new Praetorian zones with Ultra Mode on and I went, “WHOA. This is amazing!” I hope that all of you have just as many “oooh”, ahh”, and “aha!” moments when you discover the new zones, missions, features, and – of course – easter eggs that await your exploration.

This is the best work that we have ever done and that’s saying something since we’ve put out some pretty fantastic content over the years. When you look at how far we’ve come, both in learning what works and in paying attention to how you respond to our content, we are constantly forcing ourselves to be better. In a space where an MMO has very little time to distinguish itself and gain a community, it says something that we started strong and have continued to be successful for over 6 years! It comes down to you the players so we take our development role seriously. This expansion is also an important accomplishment for Paragon Studios because we strive to not only distinguish ourselves from our previous work, but set the standard for how we will move forward as a studio, as a leader in our industry, and as a litmus test to determine how best to support City of Heroes moving forward.

We’ve received excellent feedback from you during the Going Rogue Closed Beta period, which has directly affected many of the features you see in the Going Rogue expansion and I want to thank all of you that participated and took the time to write up your comments – both from a “broken” perspective AND from a subjective perspective because even if something is functional, it doesn’t mean it’s fun. The iteration on feedback has paid off because we made some significant changes that have made our features more enjoyable!

So I want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for your loyalty, your passion, and your commitment to City of Heroes and I hope that you enjoy all of the work that we have put into it. Thank you so much for making City of Heroes an amazing game to work on, thank you for your continued enthusiasm and excitement about this Going Rogue expansion (and beyond!), and – most of all - thank you for playing!

Melissa “War Witch” Bianco

She did not use "the next level"

That being said, congratulations on a job well done!

Thank you, War Witch and team, for an incredible game. You all did a great job. My partner and I are having a fantastic time exploring every avenue of this update. You really knocked it out of the park.

One of the most interesting things I came across on Praetoria is the PPD/Resistance npcs, and their offensive powersets. They seem to have a variety of attacks that eminate from their powergloves (for the PPD) or from large scale ranged weapons (for the resistance). Has there been any discussion about making these available in the (hopefully near) future as prestige ATs (similar to the Peacebringer/Warshade from CoH and Spider/Widow from CoV)?

I said it Here yesterday, hoping you all might see that, but congratulations on a really great job from all of those efforts and from everyone involved.
What a project, eh?!?!
It's a thrilling thing to unveil the product of all that hard work and I'm glad it's being received so well... And I'm glad it is so awesome!!
I'm enjoying the heck out of Tip Missions alone, hehe!

Paragon Studios is definitely the leader, in my eyes, in designing original ideas and giving their game and player base a unique brand to truly enjoy.
And I am very thankful for that!
Keep leading the way!!

Good job Devs! You really took COH "to the next level"! Take a little time off and enjoy yourselves!

Nice job...Beta looked good, now if I can have the slots I bought last week to build my Praetorians I'll look at how it actually was implemented...

OPEN THE STORE!!!

Congratulations War Witch and crew. It's clear you all worked very hard on Going Rogue and it shows.

GREAT JOB on preatoria. Beutiful The missions are awesome as are the Tip missions for either direction. Cannot wait to se the high level end game content later on... Anyhow I have a question as well as the compliments.

? At what time will the free server transfers commence? If their was a post on the time I must have missed it. ?

I'd really enjoy it if I could actually make a new character....

Congratz on the DEVS on a job well done . Enjoyed the pre launch last night and enjoyed seeing the different costumes people came up with and running missions . When I hit the city for the first time , I was in awe . I knew this would be good , but you guys/gals took it to a HNL ( hole nuttha leva ) .

Just wanted to say thanks for all the hard work. So far GR seems great! I love pretoria! It makes me wish I didn't have to go back to primal earth at 20. I hope we continue to see that level of quality in future zone updates, new areas, and maybe even other alternate universes that are added to the game in future.

Thanks you for making GR Happening and Making this game worth playing. You guys are indeed Heroes.

Add my thank you as well.

It's probably silly, but I really like the exclamation mark help thingy that was added. I positioned it over my characters head so it's like he randomly gets sudden inspiration from a third party within his brain.

"You could probably jump over these trains"

"WOAH, I totally can!" *woosh*

I also like how the seers understand that I *always* have hostile intentions. You clearly know your players.