Quote Originally Posted by deusdormit View Post
Actually it is fire, fira, firega. Just outside of Japan they thought people new to final fantasy wouldn't understand it so they changed it to fire 1-4 to be more clear
months old post I know but I think it was more space limitations with the NES and SNES since they were converting kanji to english so they couldn't fit in the limited text space.
Which is why I can't get behind why they did it in FFXIV since limitations don't exist and I'm sure FF fans know their lingo. Even a kids game like Kingdom Hearts used the traditional FF naming conventions.