Race Name Changes

change them back. you're not fooling anyone SE. most ppl i know still call them by their prior names anyway. can't come up with new races, why come up with new names?

No. /endthread.

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Nnnnnnnnnope

I still call them mithra, galka, humes, and elvaan so idc

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Hello Folks!

Please try to keep the comments civil; you can have your opinion on the game but lets try to keep the replies on track.

Thanks!

Senior Game Master Jhanaka

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I always wanted to have that GM armor...lol on topic though no race name changes.

I kinda liked some of the old names better. Still even if SE doesn't change them back, I'll still remember what a mithra is and is not.

Doesn't fit with the new setting or the fact that the races have minor aesthetic changes. Won't stop me from calling them the old names though.

no.. we don't need a race name change

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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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. :)

no....................

Um... please no.

Just 'cause they look similar doesn't mean you should change them; their backgrounds and characteristics are very different in general, and some, like Lalafell.. well, officially renaming them Tarutaru would be bloody stupid. Tarutaru look like these odd, short .. onion people for want of a better word, and look pretty inhuman when it comes down to it, cute or no.

Lalafell look more like something escaped from a Christmas card depicting the North Pole. The only similarity, really, is height (though Lalafell are actually a noticeable bit taller), and the occasional darkening of the nose.

Goodness knows, while it'd hardly be a game breaker, it'd be an unbelievably stupid and unnecessary change, and a jarring knock to immersion for people like me who've bothered with getting into the game's story and setting.

I still call them Mithra, Tarutaru, Hume, Elvaan, and Galka. That's not going to change. People can correct me all they want, but they are so similar in both name and form that it might as well be.

It doesn't matter if they change it or not. I'll still call them that, and people will still know what I'm talking about.

Regardless of people screaming that this isn't FFXI, if you look around, you definitely see fingerprints....

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I still call them Mithra, Tarutaru, Hume, Elvaan, and Galka. That's not going to change. People can correct me all they want, but they are so similar in both name and form that it might as well be.

It doesn't matter if they change it or not. I'll still call them that, and people will still know what I'm talking about.

Regardless of people screaming that this isn't FFXI, if you look around, you definitely see fingerprints....

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Well duh, the fingerprints of the same dev team.

Honestly, it's fine calling them what you like; it's a Final Fantasy game so obviously there'll be huge numbers of people familiar with what you're going on about.

The simple fact is, this was a small issue at one point -

- Should we keep the names for these races or no?
- Stuff it we changed the backstory and I thought of some I like, we're changing them.
- Oh, fine, whatever.

*Months pass*

- Dear god what's wrong with these people? It's just a name!

*A few more pass*

- Oh, hey, that person calls them by names they think are familiar. They must have played Final Fantasy XI. Yay.

But now it's just a pointless consideration resolved by simple virtue of how long it's already been decided. Players already in are familiar, to newcomer players they won't be and it won't matter. Only people coming from FFXI will care terribly much, and then only the more belligerent, and I'm pretty sure FF XIV's developers are interested in more than just that small portion of the MMO-playing community that not only played Final Fantasy XI but are actually bothered by the names of thematically (and in many ways, physically) different races not matching those of another game.

Honestly I think those of us came from XI should be pleased with the nod we got; the fact that Square-Enix evidently considered us important enough to try and create something would be a little familiar. I'm pretty sure not coming up with utterly new-looking races didn't save that much time and money, not with the total setting write-up already being done and the necessity of creating completely new game assets anyway. They probably only saved themselves the first of several concept art sprints.

I'm starting to like the name Lalafell =X

no.

Might as well call them elfs, dwarves, human etc if you want to go back to original mythos -.-

Definetly no. I like the names the way are now. Sorry.

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no.

Might as well call them elfs, dwarves, human etc if you want to go back to original mythos -.-

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Catgirls.

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Okay I say we change the names to their generic equivalents now.

I still call my race Galka. I have no idea how I'm going to remember what they are supposed to be called in this game. Galka was so much easier to remember.

I had to look this up: Roegadyn is the word for Galka now.

Rodadyn. Rogadin. Rogain. Row-gay-den.

That's how I'm saying it. Row-gay-den. I'm placing emphasis on the word gay as I say it so that it sort of sounds like two words. It takes me like, 2 seconds to say it

Ugh... Galka was so much easier. They can keep the names as they are, if I have a choice. I'm still going to call it a Galka if I'm ever in a conversation with someone though... Always. If anyone asks, what's a Galka? I'll just say "it's the race that looks like apes."

...At least until I can remember what the race is by memory...

Roegadyn.

Roegadyn.

Repetition is the key.

The reason for the name changes is the different world. Also new players will call them the new names and know them as that.