Yep, there were a lot of things on the server that are normally contained by the client in MMOs. But again, like I said above, what Tony was talking about in the part that I quoted isn't really about the client or the server specifically. It's about significant aspects of the IP, wherever those aspects are contained. Tony has brought this up several times since the end of 2012--the party working on the Issue 23/24 community server (not SEGS) will be stripping the game world/play experience of a significant amount of location names, NPCs, art assets and so on. Pretty much anything and everything that the IP was known for. Although many of these files may be located in the client, that doesn't mean they'll be used; on the contrary, you'll never see characters like Positron or villain groups like Arachnos on the community server. The motivation is to avoid IP infringement, and smacks of a decision made by someone who only felt emotionally invested in stats and game mechanics, but the end result will be the removal of almost everything many of us remember and love about the game universe. I've brought up my concern over this in every single status update thread since October I think, and I sent Tony and other parties a couple of long screeds in PMs; because out of the many people I've spoken to about it over the last few months, I haven't spoken to a single fan of the game who is happy about it. It's going to be turned into a game world that dimly reminds us of the game world we lost, inaccessible and filled with unresolved story arcs.
I admire the people involved in this for all their work and just for who they are, and I consider us all on the same team; but on this particular point, I am a fan of the work that Paragon Studios put into the City of Heroes universe, and I am not a happy camper about this and haven't been since October or November. You just couldn't convince me that this is a respectful way for the community to honor and resurrect City of Heroes--by carving it out, tossing its heart aside and appropriating its shell.