Why wasn't it Ivalice?

[Dargoth_Draconia]

Played XI for 5 years straight so it's hard to call them by their race names for me but I'm trying. We got people in our linkshell that never played XI but by now if we call them tarus or galkas people know what race we're talking about.

I played FFXI for as long as you and have no problems calling them their proper names though I still prefer to call Lalafells Tarus. I actually prefer the names in XIV to the ones of XI it just has more of a ring to them. I guess it varies person by person but they only look like the old races from XI for familiarity reasons. But because they look like the other races and are based on them and there is a big chunk of FFXI players it is only natural for majority of those people to refer to them as such.

I too would have really liked XIV to be based in Ivalice and what not but whatever it definitely would have had a more Final Fantasy feel to it with the towns and the lore of Ivalice behind it. Though FFXIV originally was code name Rapture and was not supposed to be a Final Fantasy title. SE originally had stated it was going to be a non FF title.