Our Characters Apart

[Fensfield]

However, this is how I like my heroes to be. My personal opinion. I know that a lot of people like the kind of hero that FFXIV is making us to be. All we can do is accept it and hope that S-E will switch from time to time during future expansions.

You're right of course, and I agree by and large. I'm glad it's not troubling you as it is me but, if there is one point I would like to be taken away from my little rant it's that if nothing else, it would be a very good idea if the NPC's stopped outright lying.

There have been occasions where narrative NPC's fought alongside us and their efforts were subsequently dismissed as if they hadn't existed, or far worse ones like the example I gave above, where the system actively forced us to face a challenge in a group and then subsequently claimed we overcame it alone. Either the story isn't bothering to maintain coherence, or it's presenting our characters as dishonest opportunists capitalising on the efforts others to make themselves look like some kind of lone, legendary hero. I'm not sure which is worse - at least the latter would be a deliberate twist.