Reason why "Winter is coming" was not used :)

Funny thing the 1st thing i imagine when i read "Winter is not coming" was the Books for Game of Thrones... hehe just a fun note ;)

http://theneave.com/wp-content/uploa...-is-coming.jpg

Merry Christmas and happy new year to all. I know its a little earlier for this but im just getting into the holiday spirits :)

Pardon my ignorance, but what relationship does Game of Thrones have with FFXIV again?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post481181

Never watched it, guess I'm losing out.

I haven't watched it either, but I've seen enough "X is coming" memes to know where this is going.

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

Pardon my ignorance, but what relationship does Game of Thrones have with FFXIV again?

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Fantasy = Check
Dragons = Check
"Monsters" = Check
Etc...
do i need to go on?

but just some people have more sense of humor than others :) hehe

books way better :) on dance of dragons currently! amazing series

I was kinda sleepy but after reading this...it really made up my night!:D
Good one, Lauro!

I'm pretty sure the reference to Game of Thrones was intended. Just like the "My little chocobo" article title, "Ifrit bleeds, we can kill it" quest name, and many other quests, the localization team likes to inject little inside jokes into things for the people who get them.

"Winter is coming" was not used because winter hasn't been coming, if you'd read the description.

The only thing I think of when I read, "Winter is coming" is the insanity that usually happens in EVE Online during the winter months.

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The only thing I think of when I read, "Winter is coming" is the insanity that usually happens in EVE Online during the winter months.

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Why, what's happening there during the winter months?
I thought EVE online is insane the whole year.

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Why, what's happening there during the winter months?
I thought EVE online is insane the whole year.

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The winter expansion. Lots of good stuff this time around. It depends on what you do in EVE. It can be a total clusterf*ck every time you log in, or you can choose to stare at a rock.

Valar morghulis.

Clever, but all references aside, I believe that winter isn't coming may be partially due to the fact that Dalamud is nearing, and things are quite literally heating up. Dalamud has already been foreboding, and now it's starting to have some actual consequences in the game world.

The whole game is rife with ASoIaF references. At first it was endearing, but now it's like...create your own world.

This was the first thing I thought too, i posted that in the main forum for the announcement. Can't wait for season two, if you don't watch it get hbo, if you have hbo and you don't watch it......O.o...if you can't get HBO get a library card and read A Song of Ice and Fire book series, its great.

Couldn't decide which of the Starlight Celebration threads this would be most appropriate in, so, posted in both. ;)

http://sketchysantas.files.wordpress...starks-hat.jpg

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Fantasy = Check
Dragons = Check
"Monsters" = Check
Etc...
do i need to go on?

but just some people have more sense of humor than others :) hehe

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Damn I never read the book or watched the show but I didn't know it had dragons else I would have been on top of it! Thanks for the heads up!

nice never watched it but now i must watch it :0 and it filmed not far from my house :)

Read the books but haven't sat down to watch the show yet. I'm kind of waiting for the Blu-Ray release to see it all in its HD glory

Amazing series with extremely good acting and superb visuals that really bring the world to life.
Don't expect a lot of fantasy in the TV series. I doubt they will televise all the books but you can always hope they do.

Televising all the books would just be 5 seasons at this rate, that's not unreasonable. With it's popularity I'd expect HBO to keep this going.

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Televising all the books would just be 5 seasons at this rate, that's not unreasonable. With it's popularity I'd expect HBO to keep this going.

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They've already said they'll have to split Storm of Swords into two seasons if they keep going. It will end up being more than 1 season per book.

Books 4 and 5 run contemporaneously... and while book 4 is thick, book 5 is thicker. If they're splitting books, those may 5-6 seasons total.

Then again, i think there's a bunch of stuff that could probably be cut for a TV series. Like Tom Bombadil in LotR, there's some stuff in there that doesn't really add or take away from the story.

Related to Book 5 (spoiler):

Like, do we really need the entire Reek/Theon and Ramsay Bolton story line?

That was the best part of book 5 IMO.

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Clever, but all references aside, I believe that winter isn't coming may be partially due to the fact that Dalamud is nearing, and things are quite literally heating up. Dalamud has already been foreboding, and now it's starting to have some actual consequences in the game world.

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Well that and possibly the geological anomaly mentioned in the 2.0 outline that should predate the patch and lead up to some of the mysteries regarding the 7th Umbral Era.

I enjoyed reading it too. The point, though, is that for the sake of brevity, removing that portion wouldn't take away from the main storyline (ala Tom Bombadil in LotR).

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Damn I never read the book or watched the show but I didn't know it had dragons else I would have been on top of it! Thanks for the heads up!

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crap sorry for th spoilers

wait a minute. i could a swore you can clearly see Dragon at the last episodes...