Copy pasting a previous success will almost always lead to failure or a very subpar product in the end.

Even now unless rift does something fast I do not see it lasting more then a year or 2, it only has what other games have in them. Nothing new, nothing creative, even the main element rifts are nothing more then behest... they are not even random since all rifts have set spots they spawn. The quest are worse then WoWs, the dungeons are not that great, the main story is ok nothing great, the animations suck, graphics are subpar for this generation of mmos look at what else is coming up, gameplay is meh same old same old, soul system is decent it is a hybrid of FFXIV's System and WoW's System... but most the souls are the same just different animations and slightly different effects, that and the classes are locked so still required you to make a ton of alts.

Over all Rift is a very very subpar mmo, its only strengths are a perfect release, good advertising campaign, and the fact it is exactly what The WoW playerbase is use to. Outside those there is so many other mmos that does everything rift does but much better. Really I feel Rift is on borrowed time, if they do not get thier own soul and make something that is not copy/pasted 100% once that awesome feeling fades... people will flee back to their other mmos that are more solidly made... I know many ppl who already quit because of this and see alot more doing the same with in months. There are alot of people capped on 1 character already on that game and it is a month old, some have multiple capped characters. That game is going to see the Aion effect (massive boom of subs followed by a plummet on sub count) within months at this rate.