The way Square Enix depicts our characters...are we helpless, or are we heroes?

[Elexia]

It is a MMO and not a single player RPG, true that but playing a single player RPG you also know that there are million others playing the same game, the same character even, it does not bother you.

They don't exist in the same world as you.

The argument that being the center of the story does not work because this is a MMO and not a single player game is lazy one at best.

Care to explain how you can be the hero if you're not the center of the story? It's like saying Johnny from FFVII was the hero of the game.