Golden Girl

Which ones do you mean?

No, just "fascists always lose"

But that's what's so awesome about the Praetorian storyline - they actually let us smash the loyalists permanently - they're the first villain group we've ever been able to totally destroy.
This isn't foiling Reichsman's plans on the KTF, or stopping Recluse's schemes on the STF/MLTF, where whichever archvillain we happen to be facing does the usual "curses, foiled again" routine, and then just shows up again unchanged in future content - this is the total dismantling of an entire villain group, including the deaths of many of their major leaders and the devastation of their power base - the scale of the rout and defeat inflicted on the loyalists by the players is unlike anything else in the game.

It's more like "moral lessons are written by the devs"

Evil empires never last - freedom always wins in the end

With a sales pitch like that, it's really is weird that more people don't want to play Villains

I'm pretty sure that the Mercy revamp was done with some vague idea that it might be played by red siders more than blue siders - unless you mean the Atlas revamp, in which case weeping about it not being aimed at Villains seems kinda weird.

I don't need to - the game has already provided the moral lesson of Praetoria

I mean that he's always had the power to control his empire and his loyalist thugs - it's just that he never chose to use it, as he was happy with the way that they were carrying out their work

He isn't an ultimate threat - just the biggest one we've faced so far - and the war to crush him and the loyalists also results in the biggest and most permanent victory over evil in the game so far.

I don't play evil content.

His nuclear temper tantrum on the Magisterium Trial suggests otherwise

It's from the spirit world of Night Ward, not the real world of First Ward.

I've been shaking, punching and kicking loyalists since the war started - it's good fun
The only problem is that we seem to have run out of them now, so it'll have to be back to shaking, punching and kicking the 5th Column to if I want to continue the classic comicbook Nazi bashing.

It's an ultimate threat

But no matter what kind of content loyalists got post-20, they'd still end up as a failure - the war is impossible to stop, because Praetoria was designed with it as the end goal.
And the dictatorship was set up in such a way that only a war would bring it down - by making it ruled by a god-like immortal and a group of insane and powerful psychopathic archvillains, there was no way that it could be changed without violence - plus, they went out of their way to make made every part of the dictatorship as repulsive as possible so that no one would even want to try saving it from destruction - the genocidal invasion plans and Tyrant's little speech about the need to conquer Primal Earth were just the icing on n the cake to let loyalist players know that the whole change from the inside thing was a dead end, and only arned resistance would stop the dictatorship.

Praetoria is in America, not Europe.

Try it while nodding with a knowing smirk and making air quotes.

What tone of voice and facial expression did your character use when he said that bit of text?

The majority of players in DCUO play heroes, even though the content for both sides is basically the same - and CO didnt even bother with playable villains at all - because, as the CoH devs know too, the kind of people a comicbook game appeals to are way more likely to be interested in being a superhero than a supervillain.

That's the basic thing behind the whole loyalist invasion plan - they want to kill everyone with superpowers, plus any civilians whose thoughts show them to be potential "trouble makers" in the future - which leads to another neat little twist where we display our moral superitority over the loyalists by capturing Tyrant rather than killing him.