City of Heroes - Update Interview @ RPG Vault

RPG Vault catches up with NCsoft's Matt Miller for an update on City of Heroes / City of Villains:

Jonric: How did the recent complete merger of the hero and villain portions come about? Were there any considerations against taking this step?

Matt Miller: We've wanted to do this for a while now, especially after NCsoft acquired the full rights to the property. At that point, we enabled all existing accounts with the other side as a gift. From there, the next logical step was making sure that everyone who purchases the game also gets everything.

Of course, one consideration against merging them was the value that people had put into the separate products they had purchased. We made sure that enough time had elapsed since they were both being sold at $49.99 to ensure that players who paid that much had gotten their money's worth.