This seems like a lot of effort to keep things that wont be in the game a year from now running until they get to 2.0. While the launch can be seen as its greatest failure, I think they are compounding it by not working on all of this offline until the relaunch. SImply put, how many resources are being wasted keeping this crap online for another year that could otherwise be used to hasten the 2.0 release? To me at least, if this game finally gets shutdown (not that I am hoping for or saying that it will) they deserve it for dragging their feet. No one wants to pay for a game thats still in redevelopment. Just look at the threads. 2 out every 3 posts I see on the topic are people saying they love the changes but aren't willing to pay to play until the 2.0 release. Totally senseless on SE's part.