In 2.0

[LilaAquillina]

All joking aside, and to the OP: no.

When this game originally came out, I was angry about a long list of things, and the names of the races weren't on it. Sure, Roegadyn sounds kinna dumb, but most NPCs in Sandy in XI have keyboard-smash names nobody can pronounce. So whatever.

Despite the fact that the races are practically high-res versions of the XI ones, they are not the same people. They don't live on the same world. Hume =/= Hyur =/= Human from WoW, despite basically looking the same. Likewise, the pointy-eared sort aren't night elves or vulcans or elvaan, but elezen.

I'm glad that Yoshi-P and the devs have spoken about giving races a bit more lore and differentiation. That, imho, is way more important than coming up with a 'pronounceable' name, whatever that means. I'm glad they didn't call them Tarus and Galkas. I don't want them to be Tarus and Galkas -- I want these races to be unique, have unique stories/abilities/quests, etc. I'm for more diversity, not less.

How stupid would it be to call lalas tarus, and then go 'Well, they're tarutaru...except FROM SPACE! and with a vastly different culture/religion/language!'

[Mijin]

All joking aside, and to the OP: no.

When this game originally came out, I was angry about a long list of things, and the names of the races weren't on it. Sure, Roegadyn sounds kinna dumb, but most NPCs in Sandy in XI have keyboard-smash names nobody can pronounce. So whatever.

Despite the fact that the races are practically high-res versions of the XI ones, they are not the same people. They don't live on the same world. Hume =/= Hyur =/= Human from WoW, despite basically looking the same. Likewise, the pointy-eared sort aren't night elves or vulcans or elvaan, but elezen.

I'm glad that Yoshi-P and the devs have spoken about giving races a bit more lore and differentiation. That, imho, is way more important than coming up with a 'pronounceable' name, whatever that means. I'm glad they didn't call them Tarus and Galkas. I don't want them to be Tarus and Galkas -- I want these races to be unique, have unique stories/abilities/quests, etc. I'm for more diversity, not less.

How stupid would it be to call lalas tarus, and then go 'Well, they're tarutaru...except FROM SPACE! and with a vastly different culture/religion/language!'

Lol, yeah I see you're point in literal sense. The humans in Star Wars were still called humans though, HUMANS FROM SPACE! lol so it's been done before. I know they will never really change the names. It's just kind of ironic though that like 95% of the people I talk too call Miqo'te Mithra's. I actually had to look up how to spell Miqo'te when I typed that just now... maybe I'll actually remember it now... doubtful.

[Quesse]

When this game originally came out, I was angry about a long list of things

QFT!!!!!!!!!