Still no word on Au Ra Naming Conventions?

[banndsand]

The main reason I'm impatient is to get a named alt in before the servers go down. It's going to be impossible to make a new character on Balmung during EA and I'm so low level that the new race is literally the only content I'll be able to access in the expansion for a good while. x.x I don't want to have to pay for a name change or world transfer on top of this.

[Ninimo_Babamo]

Entirely separate tasks, bub.

RMT will always be around anyway, no matter what they do.

But the presence of it felt by the players could easily be reduced 100 fold by some very tiny changes.
They have already stated they will restrict friends requests from trial accounts. /tells to a player that has not first sent one should be next as well as /shout.

But back to the topic, where has anything concrete been said about the naming convention other than that they will have Asian influence? All i really see is speculation.

[Cristal]

It really just bothers me that there's so much attention to the naming convention of a race that is truly just novelty.. I want to know the names too. I just think people's attention could be better spent trying to get SE to fix the RMT issue, than release the lore behind names.

[Cilia]

But the presence of it felt by the players could easily be reduced 100 fold by some very tiny changes.
They have already stated they will restrict friends requests from trial accounts. /tells to a player that has not first sent one should be next as well as /shout.

But back to the topic, where has anything concrete been said about the naming convention other than that they will have Asian influence? All i really see is speculation.

Sure they could reduce the impact of RMT, but how to do that is another matter. Not saying they shouldn't fight it, but it'll always be there, so "They should devote more resources to fighting RMT and less to lore!" is a rather silly argument, especially given they're not related tasks.

Anyway, here are the two main posts we have in regards to the subject:

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.

I will be adding a detailed (sticky) explanation right here to the forums once Yoshi-P has given me the green light...which hopefully will be sooner than later!

Until then!

Hey everyone,

We were originally aiming to release the Au Ra naming conventions in late May; however, because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push this back a bit. We have definitely not forgotten that everyone is waiting patiently (very patiently) for it!

We'd like to ask for you patience just a little while longer as we work to deliver these to you all!

It's all just speculation because that's all we have, even though they've supposedly been ready since early March (if not the lore behind them) and they've been stringing us along forever with "soon™."

[Ninimo_Babamo]

They should devote more resources to fighting RMT and less to lore!

Not at all my argument. I just think the constant wining here is childish. There are more important things to press for change about.

[PocketFox]

It really just bothers me that there's so much attention to the naming convention of a race that is truly just novelty.. I want to know the names too. I just think people's attention could be better spent trying to get SE to fix the RMT issue, than release the lore behind names.

Never mind the fact that these two things have literally nothing to do with each other; it also implies that there's some finite amount of "caring" people can do, so obviously since we care about getting naming conventions, we've used up our quota and can't care about "fixing" other things. Am I sick and tired of getting whispered by gil-sellers five times in ten minutes? Of course I am. But that has less than nothing to do with lore. As Cilia said, entirely separate tasks.

(Also, my Seeker wasn't born in the tribes, so of course he wouldn't have a tribal name. Might want to take things like that into account before you start judging if people care about lore or not.)

[Kytrin]

Not at all my argument. I just think the constant wining here is childish. There are more important things to press for change about.

I will note...we're not actually pressing for change with this. We're making the perfectly reasonable request that they give us the naming conventions that EVERY OTHER RACE HAS. And which were promised to us before the first of this month at the latest.

Our frustration over the fact they broke their promise, and then have said absolutely nothing else, is understandable. Even reasonable at this point.

[Cilia]

I just think the constant wining here is childish. There are more important things to press for change about.

Maybe it is, and maybe there are. It's still important to people though, and we're not asking for change; we're asking for something new, and for the devs to keep their word on releasing the naming conventions and clan info in a timely manner (which they've already broken, leading to the immense frustration of interested players). Considering we were told we'd have them "late May," and here we are mid-June and not 48 hours away from Early Access, do you think this unreasonable?

"They never released clan info or naming guides in 1.x!"
-Common legacy player counterargument. I do not think it holds much weight, though; that was then, this is now. Just because that's what they did back then doesn't mean it was right or OK, nor does it mean that it's right or OK for them to do a repeat with the Au Ra (or any future race, for that matter).

[Lydeck]

Not at all my argument. I just think the constant wining here is childish. There are more important things to press for change about.

Well, the good news is that you don't have to view this thead.

[Verius_Nox]

Not at all my argument. I just think the constant wining here is childish. There are more important things to press for change about.

I think coming into a thread that is about naming conventions and lore of the new race, and whining to us that our whining is childish, is childish on its own.

And it's equally as childish to assume because that the people here that are 'whining' are not also 'whining' about RMT and other issues you perceive as more important.