thinking about a MMORPG video game where players pledge allegiance to a faction and the story develops and evolves over time as players battle against each other and it can take different like routes as the factions grow and kick each others butt and undertake missions to like defeat each other

like take for exaple a case with two factions. on the start of game players set their allegiance to an oppressive state or the resistance against them. and you have like a chapter one storyline which unlocks different multiplayer missions which could be like different skirmishes that happen from like the resistance making moves on the state or the state cracking down on them etc unlock and have to do as you progress and level up and shit and then at the end you have like a final mission big duty with like an extreme importance to the outcome of the story. and doing that one multiple times will change the outcome of the story and based on if the resistance or state succeeds the most by the end of the chapter will be the "canon" one

one such "final mission" could in this example be an attempt to assassinate someone in the evil government and they would like need to protect them somehow. and then based on if more runs of that final mission resulted in a successful or fails the assassination that outcome would become the canon one and the story progresses again from that point

maybe even there could be a few different final missions which are like multiple gamemodes. and maybe they would also depend on what you play as. but like one could be a 1v1, one could be a party against party, maybe there could be pve ones where it's only your own team against like a boss or something. maybe stealth missions too I think that could be pretty funny but also I imagine it would be hard to like tune to not make it too difficult for easy for one side or the other

I am very much thinking about both the gameplay and storytelling of this in terms of final fantasy xiv. even the lore and worldbuilding of what I'm like imagining when thinking about this is inspired by ffxiv . bc I'm normal about that. but I feel like this could be a really cool and unique way to do an mmorpg. maybe "evil guys" and "good guys" wouldn't be too good of a division it should definitely be like. everyone is correct in their own way and just have fundamentally incompatible ideas or simply have a shared goal they're willing to fight for to get to first. or something that doesn't pit common morals and ideas against those that would go against. like it shouldn't be "democracy is better!!!" versus "fascism is better!!!" because believe it or not most everyone alive will tell you that fascism is in fact not better. cause then those that played as the fascists would probably eventually realize that "oh. I'm doing fash stuff. I don't like this anymore I want to defect." and then fucking defect and there would be no one left to play as the unfortunate fascists. just something that can maybe make you go "actually, these guys make a better point in my opinion, so I'm going with them." cause defecting would also be a thing which could be funny

I'm gonna be thinking about this concept a lot. good night

please also think about this if you can I think it would be something. should I pitch this to a game studio and become a like creative director for this or something likeeee

it could be as simple as three different kingdoms all vying for power, money, land, knowledge, secrets, what have you. from each nation, a band of adventurers embark on a mission to find a legendary relic, but who will reach it first? it could be that simple, just make it a grand adventure. something which leads to big fights at the end. continued engagements against one another which will eventually affect the outcome of their larger battle