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  1. 11-27-2016 10:16 PM #1
    Alleo
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    Why did they feel the need to change names? Those original names even make sense..I sometimes dont understand the localization team..I mean this is a fantasy game with NPCs that have lots of different and strange names..
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  2. 11-28-2016 02:59 AM #2
    Texa
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    Are the Miqo'te naming guidelines not a thing in the Japanese version?
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  3. 11-28-2016 03:58 AM #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Texa View Post
    Are the Miqo'te naming guidelines not a thing in the Japanese version?
    The Japanese names in this particular case can more or less fit the Keeper guidelines; Kuro is pronounced differently to Khloe but recognisable as more-or-less the same word (Kuro is クロ while Khloe would be クロエ). Perhaps it's a pet name or something. They could have written it any way they liked in roman letters to make it sound more Miqo'te-style rather than like a real name but that's the team's call.

    Likewise, they could have written Shiro in a way that fit the guidelines in English easily enough - I'm sure Keeper names exist which are more-or-less close to Shiro phonetically - but they decided that making a cutesy pair of names was more important than consistency between languages. I wish the localisation team could occasionally remember that a lot of people play in mixed language groups
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