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

[Betelgeuzah]

I don't want to be depicted as a "lone hero" in a MMO. That's definitely a conundrum: As such, a solution would be to treat us as among the more experienced of adventurers in XIV where we would know how to react in situations beyond the grasp of the average treasure-hunter and gil-pinching adventurer.

I like the "being more experienced as you progress further" idea. The stories can show that we have gotten stronger, as we have, and that doesn't take away from the fact that many others have gotten stronger as well. It fits.

There's no fact of yours to aknowledge. There's no aspect to remove

If you have nothing to say, why say anything? You keep circling around the fact that the story makes you seem like an ordinary adventurer among everyone else that you are and will be regardless of what happens. You said nothing that would go against this fact, and you won't.

So there's no need to continue. Let go.

[SilvertearRen]

I like the "being more experienced as you progress further" idea. The stories can show that we have gotten stronger, as we have, and that doesn't take away from the fact that many others have gotten stronger as well. It fits.

It does fit. Right now, we're only faced with a Rank 50 cap in the game. I imagine that if Square Enix plans on showing more cutscenes in a new storyline arc, I'd appreciate it if they'd show our characters, which would be past R45 by the time the new content comes, as competent adventurers ready for a fight.

And I don't mean like raring to go - I mean in the sense that we can defend ourselves against our opponents, regardless of the power divide.

[Abriael]

I like the "being more experienced as you progress further" idea. The stories can show that we have gotten stronger, as we have, and that doesn't take away from the fact that many others have gotten stronger as well. It fits.

Considering that those "many others" don't appear *at all* in the storyline (because there's no logical way to make them appear), that part is completely inconsequential.

If you have nothing to say, why say anything? You keep circling around the fact that the story makes you seem like an ordinary adventurer among everyone else that you are and will be regardless of what happens. You said nothing that would go against this fact, and you won't.

Again, because you said so? Ignoring the arguments that prove you wrong doesn't make you right, you know?

[Betelgeuzah]

Considering that those "many others" don't appear *at all* in the storyline (because there's no logical way to make them appear), that part is completely inconsequential.

Yet they do appear everywhere else. Which in turn makes it consequential how you are portrayed in the story. Because once the story ends, you are there with everyone else. Not alone.

You continue to deny the facts and you won't change. Just give up.

[SilvertearRen]

Yet they do appear everywhere else. Which in turn makes it consequential how you are portrayed in the story. Because once the story ends, you are there with everyone else. Not alone.

You continue to deny the facts and you won't change. Just give up.

Like I said, you and Abriael are correct to an extent. The both of you need to stop responding to each other.