Race Name Changes

prolly cus none of you are Lalafell. sounds like a skipping accident. the other names were just easier. now they're long and cumbersome :P bleh. well so long as i can say in chat and ppl realize what im talking about i suppose who cares. still think it was unnecessary to give old races new names that are harder to type (more so remember).

I am fine with the new names. Sure, I still see people using the FFXI race names, but it doesn't bother me.

I like the new race names. They have a bit more spunk than the FF11 ones.

I only call them by the FF11 names when I am having issues trying to type Miqo'te or Roegadyn.

Sometimes its alot of work so I just say Mithra and Galka. :)

New game new setting, Only reason the race look somewhat like FFXI is so ppl who played ffxi for years can go and jump on to ffxiv without a problem. If you think other wise thinking SE was just lazy then you don't understand how it feel to play one race or see the same race for 6+years then go to a new race and you like ahh i hate the race.

Not everyone who plays ff14 played ff11, so why would they be calling them the old names? So now anyone who only knows what to call a Roegadyn now have to get used to calling them Galka? I've played 11 but I'm already calling them by their newer titles, but whose to stop you from just calling a lallafell a tarutaru, go ahead, you can still do it :)

Unnecessary.

There was no reason to change the names, and it would have made sense before the game's release, but now it doesn't seem like it would serve much of a purpose. At this point changing the names back is just as arbitrary as changing them in the first place.

Some will think I'm being too picky, but unlike Galka, the Roegadyn race has females (in lore) and no tail. Also Miqo'te have horse-like ears. Maybe it was the "low res" of FFXI, but Mithra ears seemed more like cat ears there.

I'd rather see the missing genders added than the race names changed, but that's another topic on another thread.

Lalafell, Hyur. Elezen, Roegadyn, Miqo'te. Deal with it. :D Tarutaru, Hume, Elvaan, Galka, and Mithra seem more like the evolutionary building blocks for Eorzea's races. Different? yes. Essentially the same people? much or less.

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Originally Posted by Ark_mage2

There was no reason to change the names, and it would have made sense before the game's release, but now it doesn't seem like it would serve much of a purpose. At this point changing the names back is just as arbitrary as changing them in the first place.

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I don't understand. What is all this talk about changing back? The names XIV's races have are the names they have always had. There have never been Mithra or Galka in Eorzea. Not once, not ever. I've heard tell of a place where they do exist, but certainly not here. :)