I'll be honest, the graphics in 1.# were better than now. So much so that my laptop couldn't go past 'Normal' settings without loss of framerate, and it's an Asus G53SX. One of the better gaming laptops of last year. March forward to 2.0 and same laptop is running the game on max settings like a boss. Things I noticed is more than just a reduction in graphical quality, they also reduced the size of everything (not data size, literal size). It was immediately obvious in the early Beta that every model was scaled down to fit a scaled down world (elezen got the worst in the scaling with their smaller-than-proportional heads, something they gladly fixed). And the user interface wasn't bad, I prefered it's style over the new style though I am so glad they didn't use the style from the early 2.0 promotional shots, but it was saved server side so sometimes your interface would have to be rebuilt if you made any changes.

Still, despite all that, I don't miss it one bit.