So has there been any official word on future plans for Carcassonne 2.0 -- e.g. what expansions they plan to release -- and if there will ever be any reprints or further expansion for Carcassonne 1.0?
I feel like I've discovered this game at an awkward time in terms of deciding what products to purchase (1.0 or 2.0) and whether or not to wait. If I knew everything (or most everything) was going to come out in 2.0 during the next few years, that would be great... but I'm guessing we have no such word from HiG/Z-man/etc., right?
The old and new art are compatible.
Even the old art in itself also vary a lot going expansion to expansion side by side.
It all comes down to this: How important is it to have matching art?
Heroes of Might and Magic, the board game, you have tiles that randomly placed as the exploring goes and they don't even match at all, and this is within the rules. A river can flow to the edge of a tile and have an adjacent tile being grass for example.
So this a vanity decision to make, sort of. Me, personally, I like the old art more and would have wished they'd continue with it for these are more camera friendly than the new art.