Lyse vs. Wuk Lamat

[Nadda]

I don't think our character has always been the "center" or a chosen one or the strongest. I'm pretty sure we are trounced by Zenos in StB. In StB the story was very similar to this one in that we were mainly there learning about 2 different leaders and their efforts to unite their people. In HW I don't view the WoL as the "main character". I felt Aymeric was more the focus of the expansion, but again we didn't spend every moment with him. Many people may confuse us as being the main character just because we help these people, but we are primarily an observer who helps occasionally. In both of these expansions we don't get into how their govts will run after all - it's still up to their leaders who we watched. I think ShB is where the story started making WoL as more of the main character as we learn about the ancients, the convocation, and Azem.

As for people not wanting to be called "The Champion" I feel like you are talking about criticism from WoW players? That's more based on how raiding works, how gearing works, how they tell us the choices would matter when they didn't, etc. I don't feel that's related to FFXIV. Many of the people who play FFXIV and said they didn't want to be the main character may have meant just a return to a good story we are just a part of (not focus of) like HW and (for some) StB.

You do bring up a good point but it's not just WoW which is a popular example many modern RPG games like to put the player on a pedestal.