(07-08-2015, 12:51 AM)Verad Wrote:(07-07-2015, 10:57 PM)Graeham Wrote: It's a shame that complex morality is lost on a lot of people who insist on treating elements of the story as black or white. Most - if not all - of the nations that we've seen in-game have their perks and drawbacks. Very few are without redeeming qualities.
This does, in fact, mirror the real world in many ways throughout our own history. For all the bad things associated with the Roman Empire there was, in fact, a lot of great stuff to come out of it - and if it didn't exist our culture would be exceptionally different in the present day.
I don't see why you have to keep dirtying up a perfectly good black and white morality tale with unnecessary ambiguities.
Each to their own. FFXIV doesn't lack characters that are 100% good or 100% evil - though they are, ironically, the characters that I find less engaging then those with realistic flaws, misguided intentions and tragic backgrounds.
I wouldn't consider them to be clones of each other, either. Estinien is very different to Ysayle who is in turn very different from Ilberd.
If it's not to your personal tastes, fair enough - but that doesn't mean it's 'bad'. You are, in fact, potentially not the target audience. Just as I am no longer Blizzard's target audience after losing faith in the direction they decided to take WoW in.
