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:As I said before - eras are just ways we choose to group the games, to make it easy to organise. There's no great conspiracy, nobody gets paid more for making an extra era, it's just a logical division. We just call each new number the start of a new era of releases, which helps us organise our information. Some things happen to appear in multiple eras, whilst some things are very different from one era to the next. Either way, it doesn't matter, it's a way of grouping releases, not a way of grouping by a specific trait (like storyline, characters, engine, vehicles). Yes, its not a perfect system, but it's the only method we have of grouping the games, and it works very well for us. Even if GTA V had many similarities to GTA IV, it would never ever be in the GTA IV era - all it would mean is that the GTA IV and GTA V eras were similar. NOTHING shown in the trailer OR anything even rumoured would break this system. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 01:32, 7 November 2011 (GMT) | :As I said before - eras are just ways we choose to group the games, to make it easy to organise. There's no great conspiracy, nobody gets paid more for making an extra era, it's just a logical division. We just call each new number the start of a new era of releases, which helps us organise our information. Some things happen to appear in multiple eras, whilst some things are very different from one era to the next. Either way, it doesn't matter, it's a way of grouping releases, not a way of grouping by a specific trait (like storyline, characters, engine, vehicles). Yes, its not a perfect system, but it's the only method we have of grouping the games, and it works very well for us. Even if GTA V had many similarities to GTA IV, it would never ever be in the GTA IV era - all it would mean is that the GTA IV and GTA V eras were similar. NOTHING shown in the trailer OR anything even rumoured would break this system. [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 01:32, 7 November 2011 (GMT) | ||
::I think the main confusion here is that the word "era" denotes a period of time. What you are describing is "series", which denotes groupings. | |||
::[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/era era] – a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.: The use of steam for power marked the beginning of an era. | |||
::[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/series series] – a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence. | |||
::I think saying, "The 'GTA IV series' is separate from the 'GTA V series' but both can be considered within the same era depending on future information," would clear up any confusion here. Can we all agree on that statement?--'''[[User:Spaceeinstein|spaceeinstein]]''' 01:48, 7 November 2011 (GMT) | |||