Being realistic Darkfall 2. is a named patch. The term Darkfall 2 is mostly a marketing technique. Perhaps I am off but what little I have read some of the past patches .. say the magery nerf to splash damage... were more significant than what I have heard to expect.

If you didn't like Df before the patch I doubt you will afterward.

If they did a wipe as some suggest, I would expect df to be f2p within 6 months, the existing player base would walk and the new players drawn in by a wipe would be done in months when other players started to out skill them.