Race Name Changes

[Dingleberry]

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

[Fensfield]

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.

[Heartfire]

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....

[Fensfield]

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....

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.

[babycakin]

I'm starting to like the name Lalafell =X

[Eruantien]

no.

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

[Youngblood]

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

[Fensfield]

no.

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

Catgirls.

...

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

[PeppinoTuna]

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.

[GaretJaxx]

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