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.
I believe that EA only notified users who would not be able to upgrade to the latest version with their current device.
This does not inform those who will be ABLE to upgrade that we will HAVE to upgrade immediately. I know that I never received any such notification. But thank you again for making users of this forum aware of that in advance!
I have a strong feeling we're getting the update this wednesday. Why? Think about it, if we weren't, they would have dropped the cool house update this week which would sync perfectly with the upcoming episode. The only reason why they'd drop it 2 weeks prior to the episode is because they're dropping something bigger this week that would have overshadowed that small update if they both dropped this week.
In other words, they pushed the cool homer update a week forward so that it wouldn't drop at the same time as the Christmas update.
I really reckon its dropping tomorrow (Wednesday). As I said a few minutes ago on another post, the massive Halloween update came through the app store, as is this one- therefore, we will most likely get it tomorrow
Check out the 'Featured' section of iTunes (I'm in the UK, on an iPad) and they've got a Christmas Apps banner with a new Tapped Out logo (Homer in his green winter puffa & snowflakes) so EA must have submitted the changes & Apple have prematurely displaying the Xmas App image!
[edit] fixed spelling mistakes... Oh, and "spoiler"
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Now if you can give us Santas Little Helper & the Happy Little Elves in the update, then I'll be a happy camper 8)
This does not inform those who will be ABLE to upgrade that we will HAVE to upgrade immediately. I know that I never received any such notification. But thank you again for making users of this forum aware of that in advance!
In other words, they pushed the cool homer update a week forward so that it wouldn't drop at the same time as the Christmas update.
Just how I see it.
[edit] fixed spelling mistakes... Oh, and "spoiler"
But could be prep for tomorrow.