Blah... Why come we can't be evil in this game :/ ((Storyline wise))

[Dreamer]

In what FF game have you ever been able to be evil? That's what I thought.

In FFIV, you start out as a dark knight who slaughters an entire village to get a crystal for your King. In FFVII, you start out as a mercenary who's being paid to blow up stuff to sock it to Shinra, though at the cost of innocent lives. However, in both games, you do find yourself on the good team at the end.

[Kallera]

In FFIV, you start out as a dark knight who slaughters an entire village to get a crystal for your King. In FFVII, you start out as a mercenary who's being paid to blow up stuff to sock it to Shinra, though at the cost of innocent lives. However, in both games, you do find yourself on the good team at the end.

It would be nice to see where the persecution of those with the gift comes from. more interesting still if its we the players that get involved, and not some "NPC evil counterpart" of us with the gift.

[Zahak]

We kill hundreds of life forms a day in eorzea...isn't that enough?

[RemnantWolf]

I think that what would be a good idea towards this is to have faction based quests. The basic idea is that you take quests from evil NPCs and that starts giving you a reputation among that faction, which in turn gives you new quests. Though your choice to follow an evil path makes it so that NPCs from rivaling factions dislike you and won't give you quests. Along with that you will gain a bit of reputation with allied factions and soon you can branch out to support a side that could be either good or evil through your faction selection. It wouldn't change the main story line but I think if the implemented it right it would be even more open and rewarding than just letting you pick good option or bad option in the story line. (that plus you would get quest equipment you want as people playing good guys want hero armor, and people playing bad guys want villain armor)

[Sav]

We kill hundreds of life forms a day in eorzea...isn't that enough?

I'm still surprised the marmot population survived the first week after release.

[TirionCrey]

Because then SE would have to make 2 storylines for the main story...which would only result in 2 half baked storylines, rather than one well done storyline.

Pretty much like all the western RPGs(don't get me wrong I like most of them), but the story is always half baked cause the devs give you the "freedom" to choose many different paths, which is a nice thing to be more individual...but the different paths are always only half as good as a really well focused main story for one specific path could be.

[Drunk-Bandit]

This is not wow this is not base of PVP so why do we need this? not trying to be rude but this is a pointless topic we all know Final Fantasy XI / XIV is not about PVP is about PVE.

Dude STFU I didn't say anything about PvP in this thread

[MariyaShidou]

I'm thinking you want the storyline to spin more towards the western archetype since it seems to be more prominent in western RPGs lately.

Since in FF games there's always been good and evil and the players are always on the side of good. Saving the world get's boring, yet even in good vs evil games there's still a greater evil you're fighting against or the outcome is generally the same.

Because only very few Western RPG really give you the choice of good and evil. Fake choice like Bioware's is not real, evil Bhaalspawn will still kills the bad guy whoever it is include his half-brother and his half-sister plus some random elf sorceror; evil Jedi/Sith Lord still kills the other evil Sith Lord and the Republic was saved; bad Shepard still kills the Reapers and save Humanity; bad Grey Warden still fights the Horde. IMO only Troika and Obsidian games really give you choices like Arcanum, Vampires the Masquerade: Bloodlines and Fallout New Vegas, you get the choice of working for whoever you like or even yourself, destroy the world or die trying.

For MMO, I think EVE give you the choice of playing evil. If scam isn't evil, I don't know what is.

[SuzakuCMX]

Yet thus far we don't see much conflict in this game. We hear about it, maybe a few quests detailing it, but overall I don't feel like I have a goal in this game to end conflict.. kinda just doing leves. kinda feels empy. this sucks lol

Those goats and marmots man, really must be doing something bad since they're the killable mobs in about 75% of the game.

[Jinrya-Geki]

Join the Empire? They has airships, cool weapons, and jobs we don't have yet. And possibly rank 90+ accessibility?

Then again they could be good, but seem bad to us.

:O I wouldn't join... ... ... unless they had a wizard job that I could unlock if I joined.

Then I am sorry guys looks like I am on the wrong side of the baseball field.