Or everything happening now is an Echo, or CS of evil doom and then "2 years later".. Actually I don't even care, if 2.0 is as awesome as we hope it will be there is probably no amount of storytelling that will explain all the changes.

However they do plan to tell a tale and we are living part of it in the game right now. Where 1.x ends and 2.0 starts will probably not be seamless and if it isn't I'm just going to gloss over it and enjoy 2.0.