from: http://www.dofus.com/en/mmorpg/dofus2.0
DOFUS continues to evolve, we are developing its gameplay, expanding its content and more players are signing up everyday. We could have gone on like this for a long time and probably kept everyone happy, but here at Ankama, we never stop looking at the bigger picture. So get ready for DOFUS 2.0.

What is Dofus 2.0?
In the new version of DOFUS, much of the game has been redone. The game client has been entirely rewritten and communication with the servers has been revised and optimised by our development team to deliver better performance and to allow future expansions to evolve more freely.


But DOFUS 2.0 has also (and above all) been about improving the graphic content of the game. Every map, every object, every character, every monster has been redrawn and reintegrated. The entire game world has been reworked so that you'll be drawn even further into the World of Twelve.
With DOFUS 2.0, both the players and the development team will witness a great leap forward in technological and artistic content, which will open the doors to a more engrossing gaming experience.


Let us make it clear that there will be no resetting of characters or closure of servers in DOFUS 2.0. The game's mechanisms will remain the same, and your characters will stroll the byways of the World of Twelve as before... they'll just look better doing it!


What else is coming with DOFUS 2.0? Watch this space for more info!Full size

i must ask you is dofus 2.0 any like wakfu graphics? cause whats the use with Wakfu if dofus 2.0 will be the same :/ i hope it's not but i will still try to play Wakfu and Dofus 2.0 at same time not sure which one to pick know that i found out about dofus changes :/Full size

Idk about graphic, but i guess that they wont be same.Full size

The graphics look to be "like" Wakfu graphics, i'll prob see how my old spots look after the update.Full size

Yea, Dofus 2.0 will adopt the graphics from Wakfu. It's so that people playing Dofus will be able to experience a smoother transition when Wakfu releases, and so the two games don't look so different.Full size

Aren't they releasing Dofus 2.0 around the time Wakfu OB starts? Or am I mistaken?Full size

Even though with Dofus 2.0 graphics will be a lot more like Wakfu, they won't be the same, and also the games will be pretty different focusing in different aspects of the game, though they have some similarities, they most likely will be different enough to attract other kinds of people to each game, Ankama wouldn't do something that'd make them lose lots of clients in one game.Full size

Well, the graphics are going to be "Wakfu-like". They already have the graphics made, I'm sure, so nothing really is holding them back from releasing it xDFull size

In my opinion the new graphics look bad ass. I can't wait for 2.0.Full size

Actually, the character sprites are not the same, and as far I know, not finished, they just borrowed the ones from DA to show off Dofus 2.0

"Now let’s talk about the graphical side of things. We’ll we’ve been through them with a fine toothed comb and couldn’t help notice that not everyone was quite happy with the DOFUS 2.0 screenshots that were sent out last Friday, particularly with the character design. You must understand that these characters were taken from Dofus Arena and are not necessarily the same as the characters in DOFUS 2.0. In fact designing avatars is a high priority in DOFUS 2.0. We don’t want to change their appearance completely, but we’d like to spruce them up a bit all the same."

Taken from http://devblog.dofus.com/en
MisterTrivia
This post has been modified on Jun 11 , 2008 12:58:49 AM by MisterTrivia.Full size

and they also said this
Another reaction we noticed on the forums was to the resemblance between Wakfu and Dofus Arena. I repeat that although there are many aspects of the design of all games that are drifting together, DOFUS 2.0 will remain DOFUS - we have no intention of changing that. The approach to the two games is different. Shadows in DOFUS 2.0 are created using rounded patches while in Wakfu they are done on a cell-by-cell basis. The transition between textures is softer in DOFUS, and more pronounced in Wakfu. Relief is approached in different ways in each game.
Again taken from the dofus log book http://devblog.dofus.com/enFull size

Looking at the graphics, I'm wondering if they're migrating to Java for Dofus. Anyone know if they say this anywhere?
MisterTriviaFull size

yeah they said they are up grading there programs to more advanced java programsFull size

Damn, I think that spells the end to running many accounts.
MisterTriviaFull size

Dofus 2.0 will be in a more advanced version of Flash, not Java as as been suggested within this thread.

According to the developers this version of flash will allow for better graphics while still needing the same system requirements as Dofus.

From the log book:

Staying with the technical side of things, another question I saw repeated a few times was - is DOFUS 2.0 in Flash? Well the answer is yes. Flash technology has always been one of Ankama's strong points With DOFUS we pushed this technology further than we could have imagined up to then. With DOFUS 2.0, the leap forward will be almost as considerable. The years of experience garnered by our team (who've been excellent) have given us an impressive prowess in Flash.
This post has been modified on Jun 13 , 2008 03:30:33 PM by MrBadger.Full size

Looking forward to it. I hope this update will also erase the lags. Dofus will stay dofus, the classes won't look like wakfu's.Full size

its not actually possible to erase ALL lag there is gonna be times where there is lag its common in all games Full size

Yay, still multi accounting <3
MisterTriviaFull size

Cant wait for it. XDFull size