Guess the Realm of Magic release date game!

I've seen someone here say September because of fiscal year something and because it's the last of 6 months sinse Maxis announced those EP+SP+GP in half a year. Sounds legit. But the theme - Witches - just screams Halloween to me :)

I'd say, either Early September, or Late November, maybe even December.
Personally I would rather Realm of Magic, as did Vampires, and hopefully future Supernatural and magical life states to have nothing to do with Halloween.

September 24, the last Tuesday of September.

Spooky Stuff was released on September 29, 2015, also the last Tuesday of September. They want to release it as close to Halloween as possible. At the same time, they also want to release it in September for revenue recognition purposes. October is the start of a new fiscal quarter, meaning that if it was released in October, EA cannot recognize its revenue until December is over. Meanwhile if they released it September, EA can recognize its revenue as soon as September is over. Taking these two factors into account, I’d say the last Tuesday of September makes the most sense.

@elelunicy beat me to it, but I am also predicting September 24.

I agree with the 24th September as well.

"Ivyeyed;c-17156370" wrote:

"elelunicy;c-17151263" wrote:
September 24, the last Tuesday of September.

Spooky Stuff was released on September 29, 2015, also the last Tuesday of September. They want to release it as close to Halloween as possible. At the same time, they also want to release it in September for revenue recognition purposes. October is the start of a new fiscal quarter, meaning that if it was released in October, EA cannot recognize its revenue until December is over. Meanwhile if they released it September, EA can recognize its revenue as soon as September is over. Taking these two factors into account, I’d say the last Tuesday of September makes the most sense.

I agree with this, except lately I feel like games release more on Fridays, so I'd guess September 27.

Expansions are released on Fridays. This is because EPs have physical copies and European retailers only sell new games on Fridays.

GPs and SPs are still released on Tuesdays.

I think it will be September. I think their plan is to release one GP or EP each quarter. We had Strangerville in Quarter 1 and Island Living in Q2.

They will be doing an expansion toward the end of the year in time for the holiday period, so that is Q4's (Oct-Dec) release. That means Realm of Magic has to come out in quarter 3 which is July, August and September. The pack is announced for fall, so we can rule out July and August. So by process of elimination the pack must be coming in September.

September, anyway.

Micheal said the Moschino stuff pack will be released late summer. So I would expect an announcement in mid Aug for a beginning of September release. I can’t see any Realm of Magic announcement coming this quarter.

I would predict the RoM announcement to come at the end of October for an end of November release as I feel this pack has been suggested for a few years & will be very popular so I think EA will heavily market the release date over a few weeks.

Late summer would be in August so I think the stuff pack will come up sometimes in the first two weeks of August and the game pack the last week of September.