There are some hints that this is what their plans are. You know, suggestions in the updates that heroes and villains will be in the same zones. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is my read of it.

I lived for the red side in CoH. It was fun on both sides, but most people ran on the blue which was eventually a very big problem. Once the DEVs started to allow any character combo to be played anywhere it really got bad. People complained that red side was more an after thought than innovative and that simply flipping the power order from the way it was on the blue side didn't make for a good villain in half builds. This always surprised me since many swore up and down that red side had the better content over all. People would complain that the red side was more rude and not all of it was people just role playing. The red side was tougher when it came to earning cash and winning fights. I'm only pointing this out because, I want CoT to succed and I don't think that can happen if a large part of the community is ignoring the red. It seemed that almost everyone that played a bad guy for any length of time really enjoyed a good bank robbery and wondered why some bank robberies weren't PvP style, it seemed like a natural thing to try. I and some others wanted to see a SF all long those lines. Why wasn't there one where baddies raided the Federal Reserve or broke into Wentworths or Fort Knox even - it seemed like a natural to everyone I talked to. Just about everyone wanted to make an Arachno and would go for 20 levels on the red side in order go gain access to that group, what a great villain concept they were. 7y NOT ALL VILLIANS WANT TO RULE THE WORLD - some just do it for kicks, the money and the good life :-)