I disagree, as well. I enjoyed the differing personalities of the NPCs and their reasoning behind the achievements. I think the Seasonal guy was my favorite, although I did enjoy the Materia one.

All in all, it took me under an hour and about 10 anima to unlock everything. (I was lazy and ported to Emerald Moss but in my defense Gridania is so loooooong!) Of course, it did help that when I logged in I was in Ul'dah and my return point is Gridania, but that's beside the point.


With OP's reasoning, we should have one quest NPC in every city because right now those little buggers are everywhere. And all they do is force us to run around needlessly.


Though, I will give SE credit for adding the achievement NPCs to the map. That was a nice, helpful touch.