I'm pretty sure they've said before they have no intention of putting in regional servers (also this was a Japanese interview; why would they have asked that?) and that they're already working towards 2.0's combat system within 1.xx, so those questions don't really seem all that interesting to me.

That said, this is the first of what will assuredly be many interviews, so maybe there'll be some addressing of the latter issues you brought up. People absolutely love asking the same exact questions in every different interview, though, so I wouldn't get my hopes up. =P