What kind of villain do you want to see in the game?

[Jeeqbit]

I think they've made plenty of good villains. I just would like our allies to have tension again.

We used to have Estinien, Alphinaud and Iceheart not getting along. They weren't really friends. They were just tolerating eachother because they were doing the same task for different reasons and motivations, and had completely different ideas of how they were going to solve it. Then we had Urianger betraying us a bunch.

Now they all just nod their head at eachother. Their best attempt at "tension" now is Thancred and Urianger helping Koana instead of Wuk Lamat, but it was all in the spirit of friendly competition, and we very quickly just put it all aside. In fairness, it's impossible to have the scions oppose us in that sort of way because they know we have defeated gods, garlean emperors, lightwardens, voidsent, ancients, despair itself, and beings full of souls. But newer characters can do it because they don't have that context about us, or they can do it in a less direct way, such as Tataru getting upset that we borrowed the stapler, or one of the scions being upset at our plan of action and going it alone with their idea of how it should be solved, culminating in a big argument where we finally make up.

To an extent, them thanking us is ok a bit, but it's basically our job. It's like showering a postman with thanks for posting each person's letter. It's literally their job and what they chose to do as a career. If Warrior of Light didn't want to save the world repeatedly, they'd go to Costa Del Sol and stay there, or get into real estate with an old contact called Lolorito.

Teledji, Yuyuhase, Asahi and Ilberd

To an extent, most of them had genuine motivations too. Teledji wanted Ul'dah to be better but just went about it in a very evil way, Asahi was the loyal type and that was only helped by him being saved/spared by Zenos, and Ilberd genuinely wanted to save Ala Mhigo but went about it in a knowingly destructive way. I don't remember about Yuyuhase, but they obviously were being paid a better wage by Teledji. In a way, this makes them all have a motivation and not just be pure evil for the sake of it. I think the most pure evil for the sake of it we've got has been Zenos since he hyperfocused on the feelings and fulfilment he gets dueling people.

That said, it was easy to hate Teledji, Yuyuhase, Asahi and Ilberd because, despite having genuine motivations that were misunderstood by some, their way of going about it / addressing their frustrations was clearly wrong and there wasn't any doubt about it. It was so over the line that it was reasonable to hate them and they even welcomed that hate and mocked it, since it was part of their plans.