Hopefully 2.0 will cut the crap with the rendering and drawing we have now, and stop giving us fake great graphics with crappy lighting. The new xiv pic looks a little darker and like the lighting actually makes sense. So even if the general graphics aren't as great, I'm sure they'll be better than the hero engines (swtor), GWII, and EQnext, which are the three graphically greatest mmos coming out right now. The people building our engine built the luminous, the luminous engine can render pavement better than real life, its insane, and it can make the pavement look slightly interesting! HD GUM ON PAVEMENT! ok i got carried away. Anywho, our engine will still be better graphic wise than any mmo coming out for 4-6 years, but in ease of programming who knows, SE has never liked programming.