Final Fantasy XIV: “Chocobos” Renamed “Horsebirds”

Final fantasy has become just a mere deformed shadow of its original self.

they're really trying hard to make this game an epic fail

why not? it's funny that way, I don't even play those games anyway -_-

Playing the beta, there were numerous spelling and grammatical errors in the story text. Reading this would make me wonder if they did get some Chinese sweat shop to translate their dialogue.
Really disappointed so far with these small details.

Horsebirds....what the fuck? What kind of drugs were the people at square smoking?

Actually I take that back...what drugs WEREN'T they taking when they came up with that name? That said...that gif is indeed lol worthy.

I hope you all realise this website makes up alot of bullshit right?

I give you the ffxiv horsebird fanart

http://imageboard.neko-sentai.com/post/view/29463

Hmm, I'm used to seeing funny Japanese-->English translation mistakes. Japanese-->Chinese mistakes are a new one though.

i think its chickenbirds is the best for it.

Drugs were involved.

Eh, the kanji might literally be "horsebirds", but Kanji can be freely "pronounced", so you can read it as "Chocobo".

Many authors of literature in Japan do that, combining kanji, and then giving an own "reading".

So, this news is pretty much worthless.

lmao HORSEBIRD! ah well.. i'm still buying this game limited edition also i can't wait to play it

I normally dismiss these Japanese nationalistic/anti-Chinese posts out of hand, but it does make some sense that they would put that godawful fatigue system in for the Chinese. I don't see why they would risk their game failing in every other market for something that should have been handled by the localization process like WoW did though, other than having no sense whatsoever. I admit, that's not that far a stretch for Hiromichi Tanaka and the FFXI team, who have a history of making very strange decisions and never properly explaining them.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Say it with me.

Cho-Co-Bo.

Of all the changes they had to make, why didnt they just make a chocobo with teeth, huge talons, red in color and a thirst for blood?

Sound like it might be fun to buy this for a laught.too bad i m so poor i'll only be able to get 1 game in the next few months.Sorry everything else im going with FO:New Vegas. It is sad this will probably blow.

Everyone here not making fun of Horsebird are trolltastic faggots, regardless of any apparent vapid intellect.

I didn't care about the copy/paste thing, and I was going to try my best to over look the exp limets. But god be damned to hell if I'll over look SE bowing to chinese rmt's or renaming chocobo's "horsebirds". -_-

I mean really the hell?! china hates japan so why is japan going out of it's way to make a game for them?

(I only read bits and picese as I skimed down so if my rant is off, my bad xD )

The correct name is penisbird.

I think they can be call OSTRICH.

Anyone else see an archer wearing a chicken suit with high boots on in that pic?

I wonder if Blizzard is willing to try their luck in Japan now.

I find it strange that they have avoid selling their games in the Japanese market.

Given the number of disgruntled FFXIV players, they should try to pushing WoW in Japan.
There is "money on the table".

Oh dear, it is just getting more funny all the time.

I totally don't want to start calling cute chocobos, "horsebirds". It makes them sound like some freak failed experiment.

Hiroki motherfucking Kikuta likened Squaresoft of the good days more to a group of college buddies making video games for kicks. I cannot imagine the soulless corporation Square-Enix being a sliver like that. Enix seemed better on it's own too. Quintet made great games. Most of the important people involved in anything good from Squaresoft left the company. Maybe the company changing buildings had something to do with it. That's why Nobuo Uematsu quit.

Outsourcing to Korea and China is killing Japanese anime and video games in a number of ways, and the idiots keep on doing it, but most Japanese are making garbage themselves. Besides, it's not Japanese if it's not made in Japan.

Well the issue is that the game was actually chock full of CHINESE words which didn't even make sense ordinarily in Japanese. It's not even that the kanji were complicated, though some were, it's just that they flat out used compounds and terms that do not make sense in the Japanese language and are straight from Chinese. It looks like the Japanese version was a badly localized version of a Chinese game.

I was a skeptic at first but I'm actually starting to believe that this game IS developed in China and for the Chinese market first and foremost. That explains everything.

gif ruled, this is like deleting slimes from dragonquest, chocobo is a mascot of FF. guess its getting old eh

I'm not a fan of the ff mascot chcobos but changing there names was probably the most stupidest thing especially for horsebird.

In all due seriousness, the Japanese players are ticked with Square Enix since they outsourced FFXIV's production to China. That's the real reason behind their outrage since the Japanese players in general come across as insanely xenophobic. They literally felt *cheated* when SE released FFXI worldwide since they felt it was *their* game.

lol what the fuck?

What the fuck Square Enix? What the fuck?

Counterpoint! http://ffxiv.zam.com/story.html?story=23333

And seriously guys, why is everything you write about FFXIV so terribly, terribly negative at the cost of accuracy?

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Low quality and made in china. Will be the last final fantasy version I bought and I bought every single part of it.

These companies need to tell China where to stuff it and refuse to put into place fatigue systems. That is what pissed me off about Fusionfall during the Beta. Thankfully, they got the message and removed that from the actual release of the game or very soon after the release.

Horsebirds? You mean Horseclaws! Those mounts that Yupa had in Nausicaa of The Valley of Wind!

Maybe this is what they ment by "Western" developers

Chinese developers maybe...

Even Pokemon comes up with better names than that.

Call them "11 Exp Monsters"

little by little Square-Enix is killing themselves as a gaming CO. how i miss the old days...

I know for one Chocobos were known as 陸行鳥
Land-sailing birds in Chinese traditionally. Definitely not horsebirds, unless some crappy translators had never played FF before.