During this brief lull between updates Dylan had a great idea — create a poll to see which Angry Birds update people think is coming next. We listened, and below is said poll, so now it’s your turn to chime in. Remember, you can only vote once, so make your prediction wisely.
Oh, and for those who are scratching their heads regarding, “Angry Birds Star Wars”, you have probably not seen this post. This is not official by any means, but we’re not opposed to fanning the flames from time to time. For Goonies fans, if you never did see “Angry Sloth”, now might be a good time to check him out too.
The poll is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Original: Untitled Eighth Episode …………?
What’s the issue? It’s a possibility that the next update for ABo would land next. It would be the 8th episode of ABo, but we have no idea what the theme is.
If there is another episode I would call it Pig-bots
I doubt it.
This conversation is ridiculous. Funny, but ridiculous.
i would like 1 thts entirely in space, like the level 1-17 in summer pignic
Good idea. Maybe talk about that in the forum
? I can’t remember, Have any updates in the past been released in the afternoon & not as early as the most recent updates.
Yes. I don’t remember which one, but it was either late May or sometime in June. I know it landed later in the day because it landed sometime during the afternoon course I taught over the summer.
Ok. Thanks just wondering, Im just use to the early morning updates.
I remember that hogs and kisses for ABs was released around 7:00 pm eastern time.
Rio probably, since that’s Angry Birds’ current facebook picture :)
I agree, it’s also the only version which hasnt received an update in a while. (I.e. ABo-Birdday Party, ABs-WtH)
I agree.
I’m gonna have to go with you guys on this about Rio, but perhaps, not for the same reason. I’m basing my choice more on the concept of contractual obligations than anything else.
Contractual obligations?
Remember, Rovio isn’t the owner of the intellectual property that is Rio. Those belong no doubt, to Fox and Blue Sky, the films creators. Since we know that Fox and Rovio came to an agreement about game development as a media tie-in for both the movie and DVD release, there has to be a contract spelling out all legal right and responsibilities by and for both parties to the agreement. Fox’s business and legal units would have insisted upon it. Without a doubt, there were timetables and/or milestones for completion and delivery, as would be standard clauses in any such agreement.
Surely, you don’t think that Rio was built and distributed on the basis of an oral/verbal agreement, or some kind of handshake deal, do you?
No I don’t think it was a verbal agreement. I’m sure there are deadlines in place. But who is to say that such a timetable isn’t 31 January, or 28 February, etc. We know (or, we are very confident) that “Year of the Dragon” will be released on-or-before 23 January, so it is still possible that it comes out before Rio.
True. Notice that I didn’t give any specific dates, as I’m all too well aware of my lousy record of prognostication in such things. What I am expressing, since you asked, was the basis of my opinion.
I suppose Rio Free is an option, as that hasn’t had an update in a while. they could land at the same time – that’d be nice :)
True, but I believe the full Rio would still land before the Free.
i hope that the orange birds is coming on rio chaper 12
I have also voted on Rio, but for no reason except I hope it is that one next, love the themed episodes.
just wondering slim, but what do you think is going to be next? (you’re a lot more in the loop than the average member here, and in general more knowledgable with different rovio decisions and obligations, so it’d be nice to know what you think, if you dont mind) :)
Frankly, I don’t have any inside of knowledge of this. In this poll, I voted with what I want to be true: Seasons, because it’s my favorite. However, I think Rio is more likely.
Okay, thanks for your opinion :) when I said inside knowledge, I was meaning you have a better idea what decisions Rovio has made due to the fact you are one of the ones presented with or presenting different news of what’s going on. But anyways, thanks for the opinion :) I voted seasons also, just cuz I feel like rio is often put on the backburner for updates and seasons gets more attention and care for
rio
I think it will be seasons because chinese new year is on the 23rd. That’s 13 days away.
Now that’s an Angry Sloth ….
Seasons
This is cool I think seasons will come first just my opinion
I believe Angry Birds Rio Chapter 12 will be released first because obviously Rovio has changed there Facebook profile picture to Angry Birds Rio. Then, Angry Birds Seasons: Year of the Dragon update will come next. Those are my predictions. :)
I agree that Rio will be first because of the facebook page, but we know that Year of the Dragon will most likely be this month, so I expect that will folow soon after Rio. I wonder if they are also planning updates to Google + ?
Due to the chance of the 23rd, ill say. Seosons
seasons?
Rio, look at angry birds facebook, the got this picture of rio. See here.
The year of the dragon in my opinion
Do you remember the guy who got the 25 angry birds levels before everyone else and he had those pictures, what happened to that guy did he get in trouble?
He is no longer welcome at this site. We do not support torrent users.
Ok I was just wondering, did Rovio catch him?
Not that I know of. However I would think Rovio is trying to shut down some of those torrent sites.
Thank you:-)again just curious
When did this happen?
Early December
I don’t believe this! Thank you so much Bird Leader, i didn’t even think you do this! Oh, and i vote Year Of The Dragon.
Me too! Thanks this is so awesome Dylan
Thank you! This just poped out of my head, i just thought it would be neat to see what everyone thinks is going to come next.
I don’t hope that it will come out first (don’t play AB Chrome, only the bonus levels) but I THINK that the Big Setup will come out first. Just saying…
And AB Star Wars? I’m 99% sure the people at Rovio aren’t even thinking about that right now. I haven’t watched anything Star Wars and I think that it’s not too big in Finland. So for the record, I hope they DON’T come out with an AB Star Wars episode and even if they did the people who made Star Wars would probably sue Rovio for using it. Just saying…
You realize that (if Rovio were to make AB Star Wars) that they would first come to contractual agreement with Lucasfilm and anyone else necessary?
In a similar way, BirdLeader got Rovio’s permission to start this site. If he hadn’t, Rovio could shut us down at a moment’s notice.
He/she can read more about Lucasfilm here.
The 8th episode should be called Lunar Vacation and it should have a purple bird whose ability is reverse gravity.
That would be cool
But if he reversed gravity then wouldn’t that like make the birds more likely to miss because they are going up or am I thinking to hard?
Perhaps the idea is toggling gravity on/off? I agree, reversing gravity would be difficult unless the levels themselves were built upside-down.
Sounds to me like what he’s talking about is like how it’s done in Cut The Rope…
Ya I was thinking of that kind of thing. Slim’s idea of it seems more logical though. Reversing Gravity would make people rage quit because of the gravity thing.
I was thinking of a “Brake” sort of thing. You fire the bird, and then when you click the screen, the bird falls straight down and hits the blocks below hard. It’s hard to aim the yellow to go straight down on a structure.
You can check out this forum entry of New bird ideas.
Well, if he would reverse gravity, wouldn’t that be cheating? unless only the things he touches (pigs,blocks,things that obey gravity.) if so, that would be a nice addition.
I think the new episodes will be something simple like the rest of the episodes. Probably a space theme. I think the gravity would make no sense (if you flip gravity the pigs would just die and you win every time).
In game enter Rio has 65 achievements listed as the amount, but only shows 60 in the list. Is this a new development or an old one?
Old one.
Five achievements are hidden.
Has been at 65 since the first half of Smugglers’ Plane was released. Those 5 are unattainable at this time.
Slim, Angry Birds is coming to Samsung Smart TVs.
I think the Rio update will come first. The seasons one might come out the week pior to Chinese New Year (If you look back on the history of season updates, not including christmas themes) I hope the Rio update comes out this week! :D
Vote for the Rio update but I maybe wrong also the original mostly wont be updated as it was recently updated already.
Who knows, Rovio is really good at surprising us.
Yup second that.
Also if we see Rovio always trys to surprise by introducing AB for different devices which might give us hints about the future updates.
Hmm, I think there will sneak out the both Seasons: Year of Dragon and Rio’s last update, Smugglers’ Plane Chapter 12 at the same time, and it’s be very very soon. By the Way, I vote to my favorite Year of Dragon, if could have two vote sure I will vote one more to Rio’s Smugler’s Plane C12.
By The Way, where is the update of AB original: Birdday Party for Symbian^3 OS??!!!My neck was longer than giraffe!!! >O<
Other platforms should be getting the update very soon. I’m sorry, but that’s all the information we have.
Don’t write in all caps please
Em, sorry for that…I just express my feeling… :(
An AB original update, no levels added, just a counter displaying how many blocks you’ve broken (or your bugged settings file thinks you’ve broken)
What? A guy can dream right? Such a simple addition (Yes I say that as a programmer, displaying a counter would in no way be difficult) and would solve any/all issues people have with the mystical “swear it’s not bugged” 500,000 blocks achievement.
In all honesty, I expect Rio next.
What is this Angry Birds Star Wars thing?
Click the link in the post above and you can read all about it.
Turns out Matt is sort of correct, though not precisely, haha.
Angry Birds (original) v2.0.2 has been released for PC.
I just downloaded the update for PC. Can you tell me just what it included? I don’t see anything new, but perhaps it was just to fix some things? Thanks!
I’m hoping for Seasons. Any idea if the PC update will include the Facebook levels, like AB original update did? Either way, I think the Seasons update will be great, the Mooncake levels were so beautiful and I think Year of the Dragon will be just as nice.
Nothing has been said explicitly, but I’m hoping “yes” to the Facebook levels. ABo was a very good sign.
For a game with million of download I am surprise a lot of people don’t know about this site/have voted on the poll.
The traffic on ABN goes way down between updates. It was expected.
Me, too. I mention this site to so many people who play AB, and am surprised at the number of them who haven’t heard of it. I try to spread the word, since it is one of the few places online that has nice, helpful people, instead of a lot of rants and anger issues :), even though we all have our frustrations with certain levels! This site is great.
Ok. I guess everyone can’t be an AB addict for any new information about update and advice. I check the site about 20+ times a day.
@wanda This site is great)
I’m going with Chrome update because they like to torture us. If they update Rio first, chances are that it will, as usual >:[ be available to iPhone users a few days or up to a week before Anroid users can get it (I’m convinced they’re getting some bonus from Apple for doing that). Back to my point if they update Rio first & then Seasons, Android users might get Seasons before Rio (typically a Seasons update is released to Android users a few hours after iPhone users). At any rate, I’m going with the Chrome update first, just because.
Be careful with accusations.
Rio updates are submitted simultaneously on iOS and Amazon AppStore (which is indeed for Android). It is then “Amazon Exclusive” for a few days — usually 5 business days. This is because Rovio and Amazon came to a contractual agreement way back in March that Amazon would have Android exclusivity to Rio updates for ~some number of days~ before it goes to Android Market.
On the other hand, ABo and Seasons updates are submitted simultaneously to iOS, Amazon, and Android Market. Whichever store approves the update first gets the update first, and so on.
My brain hurts now. Where do you get all this information from Slim?
I have a very good memory for details.
I do get my Rio from Amazon as opposed to Android Market where I’ve got the other two. So what you’re saying is that it is the stores that lollygag with the updates?
It is not “lollygagging”. It’s quality assurance and testing.
Ok
I just received that i can update my game. I updated it and now it’s 2.0.2. there isn’t anything new in the game.
What exactly has changed? Any Idea?
ABo v2.0.2 is a bug fix for PC. We believe it fixes the GE-1 bug.
Therefore, this poll is still open. It is not the eighth episode of ABo.
thanks again for the clarification. You guys are on top of things today :).
Also I really appericiate that such polls are taken by you guys which makes every update special and mysterious. Thanks again BL, AMslimfordy and Fuji too!
As we knew about that “failing the level so you get that other level unlocked” has also been removed as we discussed in the Bugs&Glitches Section.
Yup, so the “Mighty Laurence” bug and the “Golden Egg 1” bugs are fixed.
Haha, yeah – a pity as it was pretty useful! Still I expect ME will be added soon :)
Mighty Laurence bug?
Laurence (above you) discovered a way to skip a level in PC. It has been patched.
I received the Facebook levels, i think….
Those were released in the v2.0.0 update.
it have to be seasons, they said: January.
so? it could still happen after rio (or 1 of the others)