Champions Online's Executive Producer, Rob Overmeyer, has some bold words to say in this month's "State of the Game." Noting that "2012 is all about the foundations of Champions Online and building up a better game," Rob wants to push for a fundamental improvement of the game's core elements to make it "everything [the game] deserves to be."

Of particular importance in looking forward to 2012, Rob says that the team is working on an enhancement system with greater character customization as a way of improving the item system, in addition to alerts - quick group oriented missions - as well as a plethora of expected costume sets and travel powers. Interestingly, Rob does state that the team will not be releasing new travel powers and costume sets with "the same frequency as they have in the past," as Cryptic wants to focus more heavily on getting their core changes in before they look to pushing out microtransaction goodies. Hurrah!