Talk:BMW Driving Experience M4 Racing Championship/@comment-35200552-20181103201154/@comment-28169398-20181104034816

Did the change the Hellcat LTS with an update patch through Google Play or the AppStore? Because the have already done two of those this release. They are on 6.6.3 already and 6.6.3 was pushed because there was a bug that crashed people’s games and they couldn’t get them back.

Google and Apple charge developers a lot of more money to do out of cycle pushes through the AppStores. Costs that in the end get passed onto the users. They probably budget for one or two patches per update, for game killers, like the crash that I mentioned above. Once they go beyond that, the problem would likely need to result in people’s devices exploding before the push another update.

Think of it this way, they new about the MP4-X Le Mans Endurance exploit several weeks before they released the update that fixed it. But they waited instead of pushing the patch. Why? My guess is because the cost of pushing the patch would have been more than absorbing the cost of people cheating with that exploit.