Indeed PART of the competitive questing are the extra initial quests specific origins have. Yet that isn't the only source AND even with those you can still chose to work together anyway. It is just a single source of competitive quests and the vast majority do not come from those origins.
Competitive Questing was a system they implemented that allows players to seek out separate goals on quests.
It basically replaces the Rock, Scissor, Paper of the first game and expands on it further.
That's a good point.
Haha. Something just occurred to me. Given that we've been promised romance, I guess this means we will have competitive romancing. After all, it'd be weird for a character to have all 4 player characters as boyfriends. XD