SUGGESTION: option to be an evil character

[Felis]

You could roleplay as an evil character. As an example in Duy Finder ^^

Considering we're butchering beastmen left, right and center, I wouldn't necessarily call us the good guys .. Also, the empire isn't necessarily evil, they just have a different idea of what's best for Eorzea.

Ascians on the other hand, pretty sure they can be classified as evil.

The beastmen do the same thing with common people.
And the empires idea about what is good for Eorzea was "let a moon fall on this"

[Veqluna]

I want to be with Gaius so bad
If Gaius is here none of this will happen.

[Gramul]

'I can be as rude as I want! I'm a villain!'

[Shougun]

Evil is perspective, I wouldn't mind a side who greatly differs not only in perspective but in actuality (actually blood enemies), but I think we're way too far into the game cycle for that to be even a semi-safe addition.. Yoshida would really have to be into the idea in order to take that significant risk.

Still, would be fun from a lore and experience point of view - I would like to see the Garlean city :P.

[Havenae]

I always wanted to join the imperials.

Same, the imperials have really nice parties.

[Lilyarel]

Same, the imperials have really nice parties.

I hear the Imperials get free dental care.

[Brightshadow]

atm it would be too hard to do something like this, as far as leveling goes it's very linear compared to something like WoW where there are two factions to choose. They would need to make entirely separate zones and storylines to make this work and In a game like WoW it was planned from the beginning so the game was built with the whole concept in mind but it wasn't in this game.

Basically not enough time and resources to add something like this to a game where it wasn't even planned. Although if this was the case ave imperium!

All it would require is a new expansion pack.

[zeroaru]

hi glorious masters of SE could we pretty please have an option in the future to be evil.

Ideally id like to play as one of the imperials, there armor is so cool.

i know everyone is going to think this idea is stupid, but it would be fun to play the villian instead of always being the hero.

thanks for your time

To have some one truly fit the role of "evil" there would probably need to be a new MQ line for people who side with the garleans as a GC'esque group. Down side of this is no concrete lore moving forward.

Would be cool to see a Garlean separatist group acting as a 4th GC or similar to a beast tribe(perhaps founded by Cid?) that accommodates the desire to wear the imperial magitek style armour/weapons.

Besides, evil is subjective. I doubt Garleans loyal to the empire think they're evil.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I feel such an option would completely water down the stories overall. Either you get a never ending story of bad guys vs good guys for the sake of having something to fight against or you wind up separating the player base into factions and makes duty sign ups an even bigger pain in the butt; thought DPS queues were bad? Now split that into two factions trying to get their quests done!