Morality, gaming

There's an article on massively talking about moral relativism in gaming. While the article linked ends up upholding the game-enforced moral view, it makes me think of how so many games in general have "good" and "bad" as basically an informed morality. When moral choice systems are put in, they're basically reduced to, as yahtzee put it, sainthood or baby eating.

Part of this may be due to the difficulty of writing about two sides that have opposed but understandable views, and part of it may be due to the classical fantasy idea that people prefer a clear-cut good and bad. But even so, you run into Fridge Logic way too often. For example, the Malygos storyline in WoW. Humans screwed up magic horribly so he's going to take it away from us. Annnd that's is job. Yes. He is supposed to be the arbiter of magic. But he's being portrayed as evil, I disagree. Other than the Aldor and Scryer storylines (which were...somewhat lacking), you don't tend to see in games the ability to make rational choices of what factions you want to side with.

You also don't tend to see any way to side with factions other than fighting the opposed faction. I think that there should be more opposing factions with reasons for existence other than simply to oppose each other.