Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-220.233.18.203-20141114235742/@comment-26715739-20151013070513

Vamsi p wrote: Guillejarque wrote: Update comes 19th at night. Just one week left for now. 7 days. Let's start believing in Formula 1 Hey, this asterion would cont till 19 so I personally think from past experience it would be 25 or 26 coz they dont give update just the night of completion of special event. F1 i have been dreaming of it but lets see, problem is they dont tell before hand, even iphone has some leaks before release but this doesnt. Right now they have to have user base  to show to fIA so they giving all this gold and other stuff, but if FIA jumps in like nascar, then i think whole rr3 will be different story. They have often had the previous time limited event (TLE) still going when they have the new release. Last release (Lions of Leipzig) was one of the few times I remember (playing since start of the year) where that wasn't the case. It's why every time there's a new release there are people posting lots of comments about not seeing the new TLE (of course even if there's not an overlap you get people asking about where the 2nd TLE is).

They normally try to run on a 6 week cycle - that is the cycle they talk about using in their press releases etc. And in fact they talked about NASCAR being there for 6 weeks in a press release just at the time they released the current update.

But a  6 week cycle would have seen a release today.

The longest release window I can find (looking at release notes) was a period of 79 days between December 2013 and March 2014. In the early days there were also two 52 day periods (I can't get definite version numbers before 2.1 but likely 1.1 to 1.2 and 1.3 to 1.4). But then they also had one release window of only 12 days (between 1.4 and 1.5).

Also Guillejarque noticed that people who have NASCAR sponsorship deals in their daily bonus - that runs out at the end of this week - which I think is the strongest indicator we've got that we should be standing by for a new release next week.

With the NASCAR release we didn't get any information in advance (presumably so they could  coordinate media events with NASCAR) but I shall be keeping a close eye on their youtube channel on Friday to see if there's a teaser trailer.

Plus a 7 week window here means that even with a 6 week window the next release after that will be in December, which is what they'll want from a marketing perspective in advance of Christmas (likely version 4.0 since they seem to only like going up to x.7, so we will probably go from 3.7 to 4.0).

Of course all is change and your mileage may vary, but I think next week is most likely.