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Spring/Summer release, did you know seasons are different in the "other" Hemisphere

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Ten Bulls
Sons of Olsagard
#1 - 2012-04-11 12:19:43 UTC
Why do CCP talk about releases base on seasons ?

January = Summer (South)
February = Summer (South)
March = Spring (North)
April = Spring (North)
May = Spring (North)
June = Summer (North)
July = Summer (North)
August = Summer (North)
September = Spring (South)
October = Spring (South)
November = Spring (South)
December = Summer (South)

In some middle place, they dont even have Summer and Winter, they just have the "Wet" and the "Dry".

How about calling it the mid-year release ?
Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#2 - 2012-04-11 12:21:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Nirnias Stirrum
Because CCP live in Iceland... thats why believe it or not they have their own culture.

Same way septic yanks say Civilization or Specilization, where everywhere else say Civilisation or Specilisation.
Lexmana
#3 - 2012-04-11 12:21:42 UTC  |  Edited by: Lexmana
Ten Bulls wrote:
How about calling it the mid-year release ?

You know, the year doesn't start the same day in all cultures either ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar
Graic Gabtar
The Lemon Party
#4 - 2012-04-11 12:23:01 UTC
Because they hate other countries.

What you expect from a game where everyone is white except the black slaves?
Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#5 - 2012-04-11 12:23:23 UTC
And id love to have summer in a january or febuary.... sick of it being winter all the time... just cause it is actually winter why cant we just call it summer!
Ten Bulls
Sons of Olsagard
#6 - 2012-04-11 12:25:06 UTC
Nirnias Stirrum wrote:
Because CCP live in Iceland..


Well it makes sense for them to call it Spring/Summer release when talking to Icelanders then doesnt it, but if your talking to a global audience why use terms that dont make sense for a lot of the target audience.
Kaneda Kurosawa
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#7 - 2012-04-11 12:28:35 UTC
Ten Bulls wrote:
Nirnias Stirrum wrote:
Because CCP live in Iceland..


Well it makes sense for them to call it Spring/Summer release when talking to Icelanders then doesnt it, but if your talking to a global audience why use terms that dont make sense for a lot of the target audience.


American companies have been doing this for decades so why should any other country be different? The world does not think in global terms and is unlikely to for a very long time to come.

Ding a ding dang my dang along ling long
Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#8 - 2012-04-11 12:32:09 UTC  |  Edited by: Nirnias Stirrum
Ten Bulls wrote:
Nirnias Stirrum wrote:
Because CCP live in Iceland..


Well it makes sense for them to call it Spring/Summer release when talking to Icelanders then doesnt it, but if your talking to a global audience why use terms that dont make sense for a lot of the target audience.


It does not really work that way within a department when writing stuff you will usually write it in your local language.

For example im writing training documents for my company to use around the world, over 100,000 employees and offices in every part of the world.

My spelling and grammar (i.e of Specialisation and other similar words) will look wrong to all the people over in yankidoodle land or asia or Australia or where-ever, but in the offices here in Ireland, or the UK or all of the EU offices it will look fine.

Same idea really.
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#9 - 2012-04-11 12:33:06 UTC
At least this time they specified a year...

Dolce et decorum est pro Imperium mori
Malcanis
Vanishing Point.
The Initiative.
#10 - 2012-04-11 12:33:27 UTC
Everyone knows that no one really lives in any "southern hemisphere" because if they did, they'd obviouslly all fall off

"Just remember later that I warned against any change to jump ranges or fatigue. You earned whats coming."

Grath Telkin, 11.10.2016
DarkAegix
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2012-04-11 12:39:29 UTC
Malcanis wrote:
Everyone knows that no one really lives in any "southern hemisphere" because if they did, they'd obviouslly all fall off

Confirming this.
It makes using computers a huge pain in th
ElQuirko
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#12 - 2012-04-11 13:07:43 UTC
Nirnias Stirrum wrote:
Because CCP live in Iceland... thats why believe it or not they have their own culture.

Same way septic yanks say Civilization or Specilization, where everywhere else say Civilisation or Specilisation.


Yeah, and the same way most erryone spells it "specialisation"...

Dodixie > Hek
gfldex
#13 - 2012-04-11 13:58:03 UTC
Because they are confused by the whole summer thing. For them the list goes as follows:

January = Winter (with snow)
February = Winter (with snow)
March = Winter (with snow)
April = Winter (with snow)
May = Winter (with snow)
June = Winter (without snow)
July = Winter (without snow)
August = Winter (without snow)
September = Winter (with snow)
October = Winter (with snow)
November = Winter (with snow)
December = Winter (with snow)

If you take all the sand out of the box, only the cat poo will remain.
CCP Goliath
C C P
C C P Alliance
#14 - 2012-04-11 14:09:35 UTC
gfldex wrote:
Because they are confused by the whole summer thing. For them the list goes as follows:

January = Winter (with snow)
February = Winter (with snow)
March = Winter (with snow)
April = Winter (with snow)
May = Winter (with snow)
June = Winter (without snow)
July = Winter (without snow)
August = Winter (without snow)
September = Winter (with snow)
October = Winter (with snow)
November = Winter (with snow)
December = Winter (with snow)


Terrifyingly accurate, though June and July are legitimately nice. We also don't understand what Game of Thrones season 1 was all about.

CCP Goliath | QA Director | EVE Illuminati | @CCP_Goliath
Tanaka Aiko
Ministry of War
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2012-04-11 14:20:13 UTC
Ten Bulls wrote:
Well it makes sense for them to call it Spring/Summer release when talking to Icelanders then doesnt it, but if your talking to a global audience why use terms that dont make sense for a lot of the target audience.

it does make sense when most of the audience lives on the north hemisphere.
Ninyania alCladdyth
McLuvin AstroDynamics
#16 - 2012-04-11 14:25:36 UTC
It *IS* a Summer Release.

Anyone living in the Southern Hemisphere caught playing EvE before their own local summer season officially begins will get banned.

U HAZ BEAN WERNED!
Kronossan
Bellum Esca
#17 - 2012-04-11 14:30:15 UTC
I'll quote myself from right before the release of Crucible here: "Won't be long before people start complaining about overly insignificant things now that CCP is actually fixing the real issues"
Kengutsi Akira
Doomheim
#18 - 2012-04-11 14:33:15 UTC
Ten Bulls wrote:
Why do CCP talk about releases base on seasons ?

January = Summer (South)
February = Summer (South)
March = Spring (North)
April = Spring (North)
May = Spring (North)
June = Summer (North)
July = Summer (North)
August = Summer (North)
September = Spring (South)
October = Spring (South)
November = Spring (South)
December = Summer (South)

In some middle place, they dont even have Summer and Winter, they just have the "Wet" and the "Dry".

How about calling it the mid-year release ?


We have "wet" "slightly less wet" and "windy and wet"

"Is it fair that CCP can get away with..." :: checks ownership on the box ::

Yes
Nirnias Stirrum
UberWTFBBQ and Battle Technologies
#19 - 2012-04-11 14:33:58 UTC
CCP Goliath wrote:
[quote=gfldex]We also don't understand what Game of Thrones season 1 was all about.


i lol'd.... i guess the term "Winter is coming" doesnt really make sense to you guys.
Baneken
Arctic Light Inc.
Arctic Light
#20 - 2012-04-11 15:03:43 UTC
Ten Bulls wrote:
Why do CCP talk about releases base on seasons ?

January = Summer (South)
February = Summer (South)
March = Spring (North)
April = Spring (North)
May = Spring (North)
June = Summer (North)
July = Summer (North)
August = Summer (North)
September = Spring (South)
October = Spring (South)
November = Spring (South)
December = Summer (South)

In some middle place, they dont even have Summer and Winter, they just have the "Wet" and the "Dry".

How about calling it the mid-year release ?


Dunno about your north but here it's:


January = winter
February = winter
March = winter
April = spring
May = spring
June = summer
July = summer
August = summer
September = autum
October = autumn
November = winter
December = winter

At south you have ever lasting summer.
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