Do u think the Christmas update will be next week now??

WaLkiNoNwAtErR

There is going to be some changes on December 5th as EA has said that some devices will possibly not work as they upgrade the software. So there is still a chance to see some update to our Springfields.

heavy liquid

I'm crossing my fingers for an update on December 5th.

KrustyBrand

I'm guessing this week. But it's just a guess and could easily be wrong. But it's hard to see why the postponement of the "cool" episode would change the timetable of the Christmas content drop.

jasonicus321

Definitely getting at least an app update this week. Not sure about content.

WaLkiNoNwAtErR

Yea, it's kind of weird they told us to watch it this past Sunda when it wasnt on for another week. The main idea was to get us to watch the show. Granted most of us watch the show anyway but the tie in would be almost pointless if the Christmas content came out this week. We would all forget about the tie in episode and not give a **** lol. Just weird marketing if we do get the Christmas stuff this week. Still like the cool brown house & cool Homer tho. Like his 4 hour task of walking around smug lol

dcline414

If Christmas content weren't added until next week then that would make the length of the limited items shorter than Thanksgiving (Nov 5-22). We had the Halloween content 28 days before Halloween, so we're already at least a week later than that for Christmas. With every passing day I expect any Christmas update will be more like Thanksgiving than Halloween.

xrobotlove

It surely is strange, I'm guessing there's much more to it than we can see. Lots of politics and semantics. I'm thinking if it is a huge content update, and I think it will be, then Christmas will extend far into January. Unless they actually listened to all the people begging for Halloween to end...
Ugh all this speculating tires me. -_-

dcline414

xrobotlove wrote:

It surely is strange, I'm guessing there's much more to it than we can see. Lots of politics and semantics. I'm thinking if it is a huge content update, and I think it will be, then Christmas will extend far into January. Unless they actually listened to all the people begging for Halloween to end...
Ugh all this speculating tires me. -_-

Maybe it will be a "winter" update and not a "Christmas" update. They may just have a few Christmas items that get pulled at the end of the year while the rest of the winter update stays.

This seems possible to me from a business perspective, as EA's fiscal year ends in March. If they do a purely Christmas update then the Oct-Dec quarter will have HUGE revenues (from Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas), but the final Jan-Mar quarter of their fiscal year will be very weak and disappointing. Holding the Christmas update so late, then calling it a winter update and keeping it until valentines day or saint patty's day might help their last quarter revenues.

Plus the Christmas App Store icon we've seen is just Homer in a jacket in the snow... Nothing particularly Christmas about that.

ur_wack452

The update may have already been submitted to Apple and just waiting for it to be pushed to the app store.

gruffy84

Check the Facebook page.....

dcline414

gruffy84 wrote:

Check the Facebook page.....

Thanks for the heads up gruffy! So the Halloween update was released on October 3rd... perhaps it's the same with the Christmas update.

jasonicus321

Looks like that dec 5th date is coming true.

Deadshot_DCU

Here's hoping its sometime this week

dcline414

jasonicus321 wrote:

Looks like that dec 5th date is coming true.

What still doesn't make sense to me is that it's an App Store update, which is not required or automatically downloaded. Unless EA is going to make the current version unplayable as soon as the new version is released (which I've never heard of a developer doing), then the game will still work fine on older devices (or at least as "fine" as it works now) if not updated.

jasonicus321

dcline414 wrote:

jasonicus321 wrote:

Looks like that dec 5th date is coming true.

What still doesn't make sense to me is that it's an App Store update, which is not required or automatically downloaded. Unless EA is going to make the current version unplayable as soon as the new version is released (which I've never heard of a developer doing), then the game will still work fine on older devices (or at least as "fine" as it works now) if not updated.

Yeah, I've thought about that, too. Maybe the older devices will just not be supported? New content won't work? I don't know. I guess we'll see.

emersonh

dcline414 wrote:

xrobotlove wrote:

It surely is strange, I'm guessing there's much more to it than we can see. Lots of politics and semantics. I'm thinking if it is a huge content update, and I think it will be, then Christmas will extend far into January. Unless they actually listened to all the people begging for Halloween to end...
Ugh all this speculating tires me. -_-

Maybe it will be a "winter" update and not a "Christmas" update. They may just have a few Christmas items that get pulled at the end of the year while the rest of the winter update stays.

This seems possible to me from a business perspective, as EA's fiscal year ends in March. If they do a purely Christmas update then the Oct-Dec quarter will have HUGE revenues (from Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas), but the final Jan-Mar quarter of their fiscal year will be very weak and disappointing. Holding the Christmas update so late, then calling it a winter update and keeping it until valentines day or saint patty's day might help their last quarter revenues.

Plus the Christmas App Store icon we've seen is just Homer in a jacket in the snow... Nothing particularly Christmas about that.

Who showed you the Apple Icon for the "Winter/Christmas" update? How do you know it's Homer in a jacket in the snow? Please show me a picture! Thanks

mattmcshane

Take a look in the thread below

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9136979.page#26010797

dcline414

mattmcshane wrote:

Take a look in the thread below

http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/9136979.page#26010797

Beat me to it!

cshirleyea

dcline414 wrote:

jasonicus321 wrote:

Looks like that dec 5th date is coming true.

What still doesn't make sense to me is that it's an App Store update, which is not required or automatically downloaded. Unless EA is going to make the current version unplayable as soon as the new version is released (which I've never heard of a developer doing), then the game will still work fine on older devices (or at least as "fine" as it works now) if not updated.

The new update will be required. This is actually quite common for software in general.

From what I understand, it will be impossible to play the old client version once the new one has been released.

edit for clarification: I don't mean "immediately impossible". There will be some delay between the release and the force upgrade. Sorry!

dcline414

cshirleyea wrote:

The new update will be required. This is actually quite common for software in general.

From what I understand, it will be impossible to play the old client version once the new one has been released.

Wow... Good to know. Thanks for the heads up!

Just to clarify, if I open Tapped Out the day after the new version is made available on the App Store, I will not be able to play at all and will get an error message telling me I have to download the latest version from iTunes? Deactivation of the current version of an app without prior notice is really not at all common, even when upgrading to the new version is free.

If I am understanding you correctly, users may want to be aware of that in advance so we can plan accordingly.

cshirleyea

dcline414 wrote:

cshirleyea wrote:

The new update will be required. This is actually quite common for software in general.

From what I understand, it will be impossible to play the old client version once the new one has been released.

Wow... Good to know. Thanks for the heads up!

Just to clarify, if I open Tapped Out the day after the new version is made available on the App Store, I will not be able to play at all and will get an error message telling me I have to download the latest version from iTunes? Deactivation of the current version of an app without prior notice is really not at all common, even when upgrading to the new version is free.

If I an understanding you correctly, users may want to be aware of that in advance so we can plan accordingly.

Users should be aware of this...it was announced on Facebook on Nov 14th, as well as a push notification that went out to potentially affected users.