I came across this Hero Con (held at where FurCon was until last year so some of you may recognize these rooms) video of how the scheduled for mid 2010 expansion for City of Heroes will work, and just-as-important-ly how the new graphics update that will come with it for all of new and old content will look like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SItM3OLqb5wActually rather neat, or as evil tongues may put it, 'Who has the better graphics now?'
Might want to take a peek, the gfx preview comes at around 12:30.