The list of changes and all of the concept art are very, very impressive. All of it pretty much sounds interesting and fun, and the level and UI designs look like they will be as drastic as has always been necessary. I've always held onto some fears that those revisions would be too slight to fix the game, but this has beaten those fears down.

The timeframe, however, is still very disappointing. I'd have preferred they just shut the game down last year, and then maybe we'd be close to these changes already. Instead they've had to keep the game going and make weird band-aid fixes to everything while designing the new version. I can't help but assume things would have been smoother and much faster if they weren't maintaining the game publicly at the same time.

Also, I'm not sure the tiny amount of story we get every 2-3 months is enough to keep me paying a subscription fee knowing the game is going to be completely overhauled in a year. I want to play the new game, but why should I pay for what we have in the meantime?