App update: 20/11/14

Out of the blue there's an app update available on iOS.

Restaurant Story app update on iTunes store

This is seemingly a Christmas themed update. However usually seasonal editions are completely separate apps from the main game, whereas this one is just an update to 1.7.3 of the usual version (note the name is simply 'Restaurant Story' with no mention of the festive season). It just happens to have all the bells and whistles of Christmas in both the thumbnail and the accompanying screenshots.

Ultimately it appears that - going by the update's description - that bug fixes are all that have been addressed in this edition, as is often the case with iOS updates. But the Christmas outlook is a real scrambler here.

I myself haven't downloaded the update just in case there is a gem reward for doing so in due course. But being a regular app update, I don't really expect any such goal to pop up. The few who have updated thus far are reporting no new content, with a Christmas themed splash screen the only difference from the regular version.

So what's going on here? I suspect that TeamLava have dropped a stinker here by applying a performance related update to an old Christmas edition. After all the screenshots in the above image are straight from an old festive version, as is the splash screen. Being within a couple of weeks of Christmas updates anyway adds to the confusion - imagine if this blunder had been made in July!