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November 13, 2008 4:15 pm

After much discussion amongst themselves, the dragons have announced that they would henceforth prefer to be referred to as rreigns to better distinguish themselves from the plethora of other dragon species on Subeta. One of Subeta's most famous rreign, <a href="/pets/Prototype%20CURIE">Curie</a>, has informed us that the name is pronounced much like our word rain with a guttural growl-like sound at the beginning.

Despite the suggestive nature of the word ''prefer,'' they would also like to include that anyone choosing not to respect their wishes does so at their own risk of being summarily fried and devoured by a more sensitive member of their species! :o

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I love it, I want one, because dragons are awsome! (:

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Man... This really screws up my collections now... Why'd you have to change the Chinese-styled dragon-themed items? I can understand if it's all the Dragon (pet) related ones, but I notice oddly enough that the Zodiac Dragon Spirit wasn't changed at all. Seriously, just change the items that are related to the pets, not the minions themselves!

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

odd little name change. from otter to ontra made sense, as well as from turdle to chelon. but from dragon to rreign? where did this come from??? methinks the same place that decided that halloween should be called morostide...

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Well, so much for the noble Dragon. I actually liked the original name. This new name doesn't sound Draconic at all, no matter how much you roll the R's and growl.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

As I've said before, the Red Rreignling and Red Rreign Plushies will be significant in the next week or so. No, I cannot say more on the subject.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I don't really mind the species name either way, but I have to admit I'm kind of irritated at the change of the Red Dragon item to Red Rreignling.

Seriously, what were you guys THINKING with that? They're Asian-style dragons; rreigns are European. If you were going to rename any of the minions, the Ice Dragon would have made more sense; at least those look like a related species.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

OK I AM MORE FINE WITH IT NOW. it's better than an unpronounceable name made up of too many consonants and unneeded apostrophes, anyway! and it makes sense...it could be a lot worse, I suppose.

except I can't do double r's for the life of me. oh well. xD

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I don't know why so many people are peeved by the lowercase name thing. It makes a species name sound more like a species name instead of a title.

Although, I would have spelled rreign differently if it were up to me.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

don't mess with rreigns human for you are good crispy and served with ketchup.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

i like it.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

It was ''turdle'' Malabui.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

The Otter is always in my mind going to be the Otter and the Dragon will always be the Dragon and the Turtle will always be the Turtle and not any other poor name that we haven't been polled over.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

directed more at deadheartsbeat: you sure twisted my words into a way pleasing yourself - but please check one thing: all users overacting like omgomgomg and throws of bridge were not "dislikers" (in lack of better word for the two sides of disagreeing that there are) thoose i saw while quickchecking it twice are taking it serious, probably with sarcasm or humor (sometimes even a bit a bit agressive :/), but not "crying" like you're calling it.
to stultify opinions realy wasn't called for. when you're so insisting on this mature/childish division ... come to think of it... is playing a virtual GAME "mature" in first place? ;D
^{... and that was my last comment to that now, this sure is turning into OT.}

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

What?! But that name is so lamreads last paragraph ........uh....nice ! backs away slowly

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

No offense. But the name "Dragon" was a lot better. At least the species hasn't changed; but that won't stop me from still calling them that~

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Indeed it's German g So I had to learn different rules for capitalized English words first and I still make mistakes. In this case it's a game and if the staff want them to be rreigns and not Rreigns we can't say it's wrong, it's a fantasy world in first place and real life rules don't necessarily apply. But still it might look weird.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I love the Prototype, I would definatly get a Rreign if they all looked like Curie. pets Curie

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Aicona, is your native language German?

That would have to be my guess.

Also, this brings up a good point. It really bothers me how spotty the capitalization rule is around the site, as far as species names.

Some are, some aren't. Are we dealing with Bengal Tigers or just cats here? How specific are these species names? Enough to be proper nouns? If so, it should be Rreigns.... and I think that makes the double are look even sillier.

Why not just Reign?

Just as a little "F.Y.I." note, English (the language) is a proper adjective (derived from a proper noun), and therefore capitalized. (Not trying to be mean, just really trying to help )

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I also have to admit that this non-capitalized-stuff looks weird to me, but this might be because in my language ALL nouns do have a capitalized first letter. So it's even weirder when I expect this in english and it's not there. Oh well. Lol.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Rreign is an absolutely beautiful name. Still, I will need a long time to get used to it XD And wow, I never actually knew of Curie's existence... she's so beautiful O_O

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Here's Rhous' opinion, guys. 'Nuff said.

(I meant to post this yesterday, but my internet was being retarded.)

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I don't think I have as much issue with a name change as much as I do the lengthy story behind it. I read it 3 times just to understand that it was a name change and not a typo. =P

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Well you can't really call this pet a "Dragon" and expect it to be easily distinguishable. When you think of a dragon, I'm sure this pet is not what first comes to mind.

At least Rreign is a unique name for it.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

** Especially when contorting that pet to their own taste makes it clearly very different than an older version of itself/all other pets.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I'm really not a huge fan of the name (I dislike the double 'r'), but it really doesn't matter and I don't own one.

What DOES piss me off, however, is when staff creates/draws/names a pet to meet their own personal taste .

I'm just saying.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I like the new name!

And good god, it amazes me how every tiny little thing the staff does pisses off so many users.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Don't read the comments?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Oh wow, I LOVE IT. It's an excuse to be all growly when it's said. Rrrr-eign.

...Sometimes I wish Subeta did what Neopets does and didn't ask the users opinions. =/

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

i'm SO glad the dragons not a name change. like... i can't even express how glad lol ):

i love the new choicee < 33

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I really don't like it sorry

But that is just an opinion and at the end of the day its just a name i won't let it bother me too much

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

No one is fighting :/ where are people getting that from??? All we are doing is expressing our thoughts on the new name just like everyone else is entitled to

Stagnant i think that is a great idea (picking 5 names etc)

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Everyone is going to have their own opinions of how they feel. People are going to insult the artists, the staff, creators etc. It happens anytime theres a change someone dislikes. However fighting over it isn't going to fix anything.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."

Seriously. A name change isn't going to affect anything. They are still the same design. It won't even affect the names you've chosen for them. Move on peoples. Stop fighting, goodness.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

O_o Geez guys, stop complaining about the name. Its just a name. I mean, honestly.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I have to agree. The way this is spelled just looks like no one used spell check. Dragon wasn't very original, but I mean come on, can't we do just a little bit better? Perhaps have a name suggestion contest where 5 or so are picked and then voted on if you guys are having such a hard time thinking up something original. Once this news post is lost to the archives, new players will probably just assume is a mistype, have a titter, and go on. Is that how the dragons want to be thought of? As a mistype? I think not.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Hmm the name...well I dont like it at all. Of course it is more special than Dragon since we have more than one species looking like a dragon. But this welsh influence or however you are calling this double rr grrowl is awful. It looks awful, it sounds awful, it does not fit to the species, it really appears like a mispelling. Its just strange. Some people posted much better name suggestions during this discussion. And excuse me for my by whatever influenced non capitalized spelling mistakes.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Is it just me, or does this name change remind anyone of the movie "Reign of Fire", which is about dragons awakening and ruling the earth? I think there's a movie buff on staff. :p

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Oh really, huff. So 'defenders' are more childish? And crying over a name is adult like and mature?

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

curses :< pressed the button to soon

Adding a different letter in a preexisting word just shows lack of imagination. Oh and not to mention now that its not going to be capital in the item descriptions and stuff, people are just going to think they are talking about the word reign, as in 'period of time a person serves as a monarch or pope' and misspelled it rather then a species.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

<quote>"How can you misspell a word you made up, Noir? Rreign and reign are NOT the same word/thing, just like a dillema and a dilemma aren't."</quote>

LAWL they did not make up the word rreign, they just misspelled reign XD Its not like they came up a name and then noticed 'omg this is spelled like reign but with 2 r's!'. All the did was take reign and in a sad attempt to make it 'cool' and 'original' added another r. And thank you for providing another example of the 'creative teams' lack of originality. Adding a different letter in a preexisting word

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

While this is just my opinion, and of which I doubt I'll change anyone else's with mine, but it seems rather odd that a group of organisms that had enough of a higher thought process to organize, rationalize, and decided as a group to change their name would do so in a way to make them seem less proper. It just doesn't make much sense in my brain that something capable of doing all that would decide that their name isn't important enough to have a capitalized letter at the front of it.

Again, just my way of thinking.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Didn't think something like this would get over 300 comments =0

I like the name. Doesn't bother me one bit. rreign sounds more superior than dragon.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

The name is better than dragon, which was pretty unoriginal, but I'm not really a fan of the double r.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

ii ddo nnot oown oone oof tthese ppets wwhich iis aa ggood tthing ssince Ii ffind tthis aall vvery ssilly

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

I like the new name, and as a grammar nazi and English tutor, I can safely say that the capitalization thing is being blown way out of proportion. Proper names (like Bob) are capitalized, common names (like cat) are not. Furthermore, while I absolutely love the staff's willingness to ask us the users our opinions on changes that are made around the site, it is unreasonable to expect that we be consulted about everything. I would have welcomed a poll, but find it unnecessary and am not the least bit bent out of shape about not having one available. In addition, I'm glad that discussions like these are allowed, silencing dissent is rarely done here and it's one of the things I value about this site. love you GUYZ <3 hehe

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

The double R's, and indeed the new name itself, were inspired by Welsh-- the Welsh Dragon, Y Ddraig Goch, to be precise.

Finally, my country infunces Subeta! Dances around throwing Daffodils and leeks at people

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Thank you, huff. I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

then be an example and act your age too. i've seen more "defenders" act weird (ie: all caps and making fun of people) in here then the ones that the ones that simply pointed things out.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

Pretty cool ^^; Stop complaining everyone - you'll get used to it.

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

They changed he name not how it looks what the big deal. Personally I never really care what species name my pets have as long as their name is love and they look like their cute selves

December 31, 1969, 7:00 pm by

bawwww, you don't like the name change? baww, too bad - seems it is staying. c; Now, seriously. I like THIS name rather than 'dragon', I mean, come on, 'dragon' is childish - which this site really /isn't/ for children. Rather, teenagers-adult. So please, act your age. Its not like you don't get to pick its name when you adopt one, i mean really, the only place the name change will be noted are the items and a little spot on your pet profile. Not that big of a deal.

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