Will Final Fantasy ever make a "Dark Side"?

[Pandemonium1960]

Forgive if this has been asked/discussed before. I was wondering if Final Fantasy would ever be doing a "Horde" side? So we could make Dark/Evil Characters? Sometimes it's just fun to be bad.

[Iscah]

Not in this story format, no. They'd have to write everything twice.

[Pandemonium1960]

Not in this story format, no. They'd have to write everything twice.

Thanks! That makes sense.

[MsQi]

Not in this story format, no. They'd have to write everything twice.

mmo cliche #1: No matter how well developed two competing factions are, they will inevitably join forces for the "greater good" even if one is the self proclaimed "Bad Guys". This is primarily done to save production costs.

[Peace-Division]

Not in this story format, no. They'd have to write everything twice.

I think this is what Bioware regret when making SWTOR. 8 Classes (4 on each side) a huge amount of character dialogue to reflect the class and "side", plus they were fully voice acted. it sky rocketed the budget to 250 million.

[Goji1639]

In games like World of Warcraft you're kind of a nameless, faceless footsoldier in a larger world. FFXIV is way too character and story driven to allow for different alignments like that. You're basically whatever the story needs you to be.

[Vahlnir]

In games like World of Warcraft you're kind of a nameless, faceless footsoldier in a larger world. FFXIV is way too character and story driven to allow for different alignments like that. You're basically whatever the story needs you to be.

Not anymore we're not. Over the last few expansions of WoW we have basically been the WoL-like character.

[Enla]

Unlikely at this point given how far back they'd need to rewrite things. Also as Goji stated the very existence of the WoL and how they affect the story kinda prohibits a faction system from working alongside a well told and engaging narrative. Some games can pull it off successfully, SWTOR in it's initial release, but even they eventually collapse back down to a singular goal for their players to engage with with just mildly different dialogue flavors to account for the faction issues. At this point you're going to have to wait for the next FF MMO to potentially explore that concept.

[gumas]

dont think so, the theme of the game is pretty much like standard JRPG/dragon quest style where a hero vanquish the evil typical storyline.

at the best, the dark side we can get is probably the twist and turn we got in the story like the cutscene where people change to sineater in SHB, thats probably the darkest one i ever seen in this game

[Theodric]

It wouldn't be impossible, though it would take a lot of extra resources. One point in its favour is that the game and writers themselves make it a point to show that good and evil are matter of perspectives rather than absolutes. We just happen to be seeing various conflicts through the eyes of one particular side.