I loaded the new Seasons, got the error message but eventually discovered what they'd done, made a new shortcut and it works. BUT ... all I could find that was new was three bonus levels at the foot of the Winter Wonderham page. The same three bonus levels (which I'd already 3-starred) were repeated at the foot of the next (bonus) page. Where are the 6 new levels supposed to be?

Thanks for the prompt response. Now I feel stupid for not having thought of that.

Rovio is working on them actively. I think there was a bug in their coding -- perhaps related to the future of the Rovio Cloud/Sync system.

So what is the Cloud/Sync system?

@3star-jeff, you can read it here http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-cloud-sync-coming-soon/

Well, I just did one of my regular checks in Angry Birds Star Wars to see if we go Cloud City yet. Yet.

Usually the app is pretty good about prompting you to update when you launch it if there's a new version, but I've been in high tech for decades, and in charge of software development teams myself, so I never really trust anything to work the same way twice. So this time I actually clicked on the image for Cloud City, which still says "Coming Soon," even though that train left the station a while ago.

Not sure if this is new or now, but I get a cute little popup that asks "What do you think the next planet will be? Like us on Facebook for hints!"

My apologies if someone has already vented a rant about this here. However, this got my dander up for a few reasons:

1. Do they mean the next planet -- Cloud City -- that has already been released on most of (all?) the other platforms for several weeks now? Because apparently Rovio thinks we all live in some far corner of the galaxy, where we are unaware of what our fellow Angry Bird fans are playing on other devices. I don't think I need any "hints."

2. I "Liked" Angry Birds on Facebook a long, long time ago. Rovio knows that, because that's the way the whole Facebook thing works; otherwise there would be no point. So why do I keep seeing messages -- even, astoundingly, in the Facebook Friends and Facebook Star Wars games themselves -- asking me to "Like" Angry Birds?

If you're asking me to give you information about me on a social platform, and then don't use that information to at least stop pestering me to give you the same information when I actually can't give you the information more than once, that's just really, really lazy user experience design. Or incompetent coding -- depends on who got to make the call.

I've done user experience design -- including for Facebook apps -- for well over a decade, and on this point, I know whereof I speak.

As User Experience Designers, this is, and always has been, one of our primary commandments:

Thou shalt not ask the User repeatedly for Information that the User hast already provided thee. Unless thou hast a very, very good Reason, In which case, though hast better be prepared to provide a Reason that is entirely unto the User's benefit. Otherwise, thou hast sinned against the User, and should come no longer before the User to beseech the User for anything whatsoever.

If this were a rinky dink little startup with no aspirations to glory, I could easily overlook something this basic. But sorry -- if you can negotiate a creative collaboration with George Lucas, and figure out how to make gravity work in ways we never would have thought of, and get the freakin' Mars Rovers included as part of your game...you can certainly check whether the user has already Liked you, and not keep pestering us for ego stroking like an insecure puppy.

Whoa! That was a bit harsh wasn't it? Yeah, I think it was maybe a little harsh. Apparently, harsh is the way I've chosen to roll on this particular issue.

No need to discuss; I've said my piece, thank you all for pausing at the street corner while the demented woman rants on and on about trivial nonsense. Thank you for your time; really, you've been most kind...

The only problem contacting Rovio is that you usually just get a generic response with very little information. I have contacted them a few times over the last month and a half about the lack of updates for the PC and their response has been be patient and its coming soon.

Keep an eye on our update log and our Twitter feed for release information.

@WereWolf69 -- First, hello dear friend!

Secondly, since I'm not acquainted with @truckdriver (Hello @truckdriver), I'm not really sure how to take your comment. But I'm going to go with the idea that we both amuse the hell out of you, since that's a pretty safe default position. :-)

Oh, now that I look at @truckdriver's recent activity (apologies, TD, for the mild stalking behavior), I see that he recently said to you:

"@werewolf69, unfortunately the “mildly sane” train done left the depot, and all I got left is to join Ozzy on his crazy train!"

May I remind you, WW69, that we are known by the company we keep. And birds of a feather and all that nonsense.

However, I am truly grateful whenever I stumble across an appreciative audience for my particular brand of absurdist nonsense. It is the literal truth that within about 15 minutes of meeting me in real life, most people say "Oh, you're so...*funny*." And by funny, I think they really mean slightly disturbing, but in an interesting way.

Which I take to be the highest form of compliment.

@AMslimfordy -- thank you so much for being kind enough to post a response, and allow me the opportunity to thank you for all the hard work you do to keep us up-to-date about what's new and what's coming (plus all the other amazing stuff you do). I absolutely rely on the Updates page to make sure I have the latest version of all the games. And thank you, also, for being such a patient moderator and calmly listening to the endless, uh, impatient fussing about when updates will arrive.

You really should just smack us all upside our little bird-brain heads and tell us to grow up, simmer the heck down, and go develop alternative obsessions to keep us occupied for a couple of weeks. You are much, much kinder to us than we deserve. Thank you, really.

There, that's a lovely start to my day...let me flit off and see what other trouble I can manage to cause...

@WereWolf69 - thank you for the very fine compliment, although I would have been equally flattered, as I'm sure you realize, to know that you thought I was, uh, shall we say...slightly eccentric. Which you should, because I work darn hard at that, you know. :-)

I look forward to getting to know @truckdriver, especially since he's a friend of yours. (What he will make out of me, on the other hand, heaven only knows...)

But I hope you are not laboring under some silly notion that I am a genius, or that I even have all that much of a clue about anything. I do happen to know about designing how a user interacts with software (or a website, or other virtual stuff like that), on account of doing it so long, and being pretty darn good at my job. I'm not a software developer, though. My work falls more under Digital Advertising and Marketing. It's really hard to explain what I do to anyone who isn't in the industry. And it's boring, so never mind.

Anyway, I know I had a point to make in here somewhere, let's see...Oh! Right. I actually hate throwing technical terms around, because this is actually part of my day job, and therefore falls immediately in the Not for Fun category. Sorry if I came off as a posturing posturer; I was working up a bit of a froth at the time, and that just results in general, uh, frothiness.

I try not to get on my high horse like that very often, because it's really easy to fall off and land in the mud. One thing I've learned over the years is that I really don't know much of anything, and I am less and less inclined to make judgments about anyone.

But Rovio went and got my dander up about something that happened to be in my little geeky part of the woods, and sometimes my dignity gets out from under me before I can get everything back under control.

Hope you are well, my friend!

@Aman, I totally agree with you. They stated on Facebook on Apr 3 that they were releasing them in a few days. Even with a bug in the code 1 and a half months to debug a program is a very long time. I wonder if they gave up on updates for the PC, although I sure hope not.

@Aman, @3star-jeff, I couldn't agree more. I'm pretty sure the admins are getting pretty tired of us poor neglected PCers complaints, but this IS our thread, so I think we have the right to bellyache when the time lag on updates is so egregious. At this rate, we will be behind everyone on the leaderboards by 6 months.
Not that the fine folk who run this site have any say in when we get an update, but I can't hope but that the squeaky wheel will get some grease. So squeak...squeak....

@waimea I agree with exactly with what you said. My complaints are with Rovio not the admins of this site. I feel like if nobody voices the concerns of PC users, we will get overlooked even more.
@Landstander, I was thinking the same thing, but if they had that huge of a problem wouldn't you just roll back the code and just give the level updates and keep working on the major overhaul in the background. That is the usual way of coding, don't bite off more than you can chew.

@waimea @3tar_jeff @Landstander Now we have to just wait for PC updates to come.
May be they have some big problem in their PC coding.

@stocktoad Charging for an update might be MORE difficult than introducing Power Ups.

Speculation without evidence is dangerous.

Then it might be nice if they put out an announcement to say why they have ceased providing updates at this time, instead of just leaving us hanging. I agree, speculation without evidence is dangerous, but if they would give us an explanation, instead of the ever constant 'coming soon', we wouldn't have to speculate so much.

I totally agree with @waimea. All Rovio has to do is keep us informed. I have to believe that most of us are intelligent human beings. When we pay for something with the expectation that updates will be provided in a somewhat expeditious fashion and then hear nothing, it feels a bit like a rip-off, especially considering other platforms have been updated.

@AMslimfordy - That's all very well and good but I (and apparently a myriad of others) haven't received any notification. How do you receive yours?

Ah ha! I don't use Twitter any more. Thanks @AMslimfordy.

3star-jeff If you're on PC, you might have to adjust the filter. I think there's an option near the top that says "With Replies / Without Replies"? I believe Without is chosen by default, whereas With is what we want for this specific circumstance. Sorry if my description is vague, but I haven't been on Twitter on PC in a while.

Also, the employee(s) who man the Twitter account are not the same who reply to support@ or contact@ emails.

Last, the amount of information that Rovio employees are allowed to divulge varies with time. A couple weeks ago, perhaps they were not at liberty to say "technical problems". Perhaps now they are.

I would rather wait for a well prepared update than get an update with bugs and issues. If they are saying that there's technical problems, there probably is some. Why would they lie about that? I'm sure they're doing everything they can to get those new updates out 'cause the longer it takes, the more they're getting negative feedback and who would want that?

@thebrown - I haven't seen any comments from you? Where have you commented - in the forum or somewhere else?

Those are some pretty serious technical issues. What I don't understand is how they can keep developing new games and new updates before resolving the "technical issues" they are having with the PC versions. It really makes no sense.