In-game notifications

[GrammarNazi890]

Greetings!

I'm sorry to point out  the obvious but..When I played Lineage II, i've received a pop-up message addressed to players about the upcoming server restart.

And it was like: 'Attention players! This server will reastarting in 3 minutes.'

Needless to say, the usage of '-ing' here is unacceptable and totally inappropriate.

In case we already know things are about to happen by schedule, we always use present simple tense! This really looks freaky!

 

6: Strangely, we can use this tense to talk about the future. When you are discussing a timetable or a fixed plan, you can use this tense. Usually, the timetable is fixed by an organisation, not by us:

• School begins at nine tomorrow.
• Our train leaves at eleven.
• What time does the film start?
• The plane doesn't arrive at seven, it arrives at seven thirty.
• When does the class finish?

 

P.S. You have a wonderful server! (Medea)

P.P.S. If you don't believe what I'm saying, you might be interested in this! http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-use.html

 

[GM-Kseniya]

Пишу вам ответ на русском, т.к. проверив логи чата ваших персонажей понятно, что вы его прекрасно знаете.

Сервер является русскоязычным и основная цель подобных сообщений - информирование.

Решение данного вопроса не является приоритетным или важным.