The long-running cell recreation The Simpsons: Tapped Out is formally coming to an finish after greater than a decade of success.
Publisher EA Games has introduced that the favored free-to-play metropolis builder will likely be faraway from app shops this October after a 12-year journey that has delighted followers of The Simpsons worldwide.
The recreation, which launched in 2012 for iOS and Android, allowed gamers to rebuild Springfield after Homer Simpson’s negligence precipitated a nuclear meltdown. It grew to become so so standard that simply by 2014, had already generated over $130 million in income.
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EA mentioned shutting down Simpsons: Tapped Out was ‘emotional’
However, the time has come to say goodbye, EA confirmed that growth on The Simpsons: Tapped Out is formally coming to an finish in a Facebook publish. The writer mentioned the choice was an “emotional one” for everybody concerned.
“We have made the troublesome choice to sundown Tapped Out. In-app purchases have been disabled, and the sport will likely be faraway from the app shops October 31, 2024. You could proceed taking part in till January twenty fourth, 2025, at which level servers will likely be turned off and TSTO is not going to be accessible,” the assertion learn, and added, “we’re grateful that we’ve been capable of ship 308 updates, 831 characters and together with at this time’s last farewell 1,463 questlines. As our journey involves a detailed, we provide our sincerest because of you, the gamers, who’ve made this all potential.”
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With this announcement, EA has already disabled all in-app purchases, and the sport will likely be faraway from app shops on October thirty first. However, the sport’s servers will stay stay till January twenty fourth, 2024, when The Simpsons: Tapped Out will go offline for good.
EA has acknowledged a last in-game bug associated to the conversion of in-game foreign money to donuts. “We’re conscious of a difficulty with the in-game foreign money to donut conversion and are investigating,” the writer famous in a follow-up publish.
Fans are disillusioned with Simpsons’ shuntdown
As everybody anticipated, followers aren’t very proud of EA Games’ choice. Like ons Fb consumer posted, “I picked this recreation again up a 12 months or two in the past and was so completely happy it was nonetheless kicking! I’m devastated that I received’t ever have the ability to examine on my metropolis once more after January 😣”
While one other one wrote, “Ending the sport and we by no means received Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz. Don’t want Phil’s Voice on it, Springfield Poolmobile too. Like folks mentioned let’s us maintain taking part in, gamers want to construct up their land nonetheless a well-liked recreation.”
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“I do not perceive WHY. This remains to be a well-liked recreation, folks find it irresistible. 😭😭,” one consumer expressed.