Still no word on Au Ra Naming Conventions?

[Cilia]

The reason I say incompetence is that (again, this is just from my understanding of what we've been told) the NA team has apparently had these naming conventions ready to go for quite some time, and they've had to translate and localize just as much as the other language teams.

These are certainly true. But right now you've got the whole world asking for the naming conventions to be released. If they released what they have now, that pacifies every region that already has them done.

It's true that they've had the conventions themselves ready since March, but not the lore behind them. I can go and dig up the post if you like.

With that in mind, the lore behind the clans could very well color players' choices on which tribe to go with and what to name their character. Your average player doesn't really care and just goes with whatever they think is cool and/or sexy, but some people do. It's not really the names themselves holding it back (as far as we know), but information on the clans beyond the most basic of outlines of their social structures. And while Raen names have solid guesses based on in-game Domans and Yugiri ([Japanese name] [Nounverb(er)]), for all we know the Xaela have their own pseudo-language like the Sea Wolf Roegadyn.

Yeah, posting what they have would assuage the irritation of the people who it's been translated for, but it would further irritate the people who don't have it yet. While it's extremely irritating to be so close to the wire and still have nothing but gods-damn "soon™," at least everyone has "soon™" so it's fair.

That said, the post from Koji is back from mid-March, before 2.5.5 was even released. I don't think it was crunch time back then? /shrug. Either way, they've admitted they're at fault for screwing the pooch on that one, so all we can do is wait with bated breath for soon™ to come. Being upset and impatient isn't going to help.

EDIT

Here it is (with the relevant information):

3. When are we going to get a naming guide!? I need to start thinking of what I'm going to call the new character I roll in June!
The naming rules for both clans have been finalized and work is being done fleshing out the lore behind it all. Things will be somewhat similar to what was done with the Hyur (drawing from historic names) but the with the regional and linguistic roots being completely different. Surnames will also feature a special set of rules that can be followed to the T, or slightly modified if a player wants to be adventurous.

Dated March 8th. My birthday, coincidentally.