People need to get it through their heads that 1.0 is not 1.23 is not 2.0. They are basically three different games. 1.23 is as different from 1.0 as 2.0 is from 1.23.
1.0 was hemorrhaging money because it was broken. They fixed it, made it an enjoyable game, and then destroyed it. It is also pretty hard to make money when they don't charge people for it. They went months of f2p service during the patches leading up to 2.0. If they had released 2.0 with the 1.23 mechanics on stable servers, they would have had a quality game that people would pay to play.
