I personally do not think this game will ever reach what I feel was the greatness XI WAS. A little emphasis on was the game is garbage now.

XI had the strongest community of any mmo I played, a linkshell(guild) was your lifeline in the game, the game drew you in from level 1, and the game had enough content to keep you in it for a very long time. I played that game for over 20,000 hours and never ran out of things to do once.

As others in this post have stated,the genre has changed. MMOs are no longer the never ending games, they are no longer built around the communities. They have sacrificed their soul to make quick buck. Devs cave into the demands of the masses instead of making a good game. We went from a genre focused around a large guild doing things a single player could not so to a genre where it is solo centric with some grouping in it (Offline mentality). We went from a genre where hard work and dedication reaped rewards, to a welfare system where everyone the good,bad,lazy,casual,hardcore are handed the same top notch gear.

There is a reason why the mmo genre is stagnant and people are averaging only playing a game for 1-2yrs now before moving onto the next. People complain about the copy paste in this game, while it failed at launch I give them props for not copying mainstream which almost copy paste everything from WoW outside the games skin. Solo quest, almost same job structure, Same AH system, same Craft system, Same abilities (this still blows my mind), same progression structure, same item structure with meds, same dungeon structure, same raid structure..... the same game with a new skin. People wonder why nothing can kill WoW, why would someone give up 4-6yrs invested to go play the same game from level 1 again except have less content and polish. People like WoW and that is fine, but there will never be a MMO that out WoW's WoW.

Will this game be great one day? That depends on this question. Will Final Fantasy XIV 2.0 Copy WoW? If the answer to that is yes the answer to the OPs question is unfortunately no in my opinion. IT will be the same crap with a new skin without enough content for any true gamer to stay with it for more then a month.