Pour one out for a real one. The Simpsons tapped out just announced that it’s ending. It’s a Phone game that I’ve been playing for nine years. It’s been out there for 12. Everything from the Simpsons TV show from major characters that have been appearing over and over to memorable one offs, to characters that if you blinked, you would miss them. Everything. You could make Your own Springfield and design it however, you wanted. It was really fun to figure out how to place all of these people, their houses and businesses, as well as all of the other weird stuff from treehouse of horror and everything. It was all there if you wanted it. Well, a while ago, they announced after years of levels were you just got a donut reward (the in-game currency) but no new quest lines, they announced 939 was going to be the final level. I finally reached that level about a month ago.
Well, EA just announced that the game itself is ending. All of the premium items are now free. There’s no limits on the amount of land you can have or the amount of items you can have. All of the main characters from the game said goodbye and reminisced about all of the times they had. They thanked all of the people who made the game and all of the people who loved it, and announced that the game is going to end completely.  it’s going to be out of the App Store around October 24 and the game will stop working around January 24, 2025.
I know this probably doesn’t matter to anybody but in an era of corporate greed and considering the Simpsons is still on the air, it’s really cool that a freemium game like this decided that they wanted to actually stick the landing and have a real ending. I’ll miss it. It was really fun to actually figure out what my town should look like and how much residential versus commercial there should be, and where people would live and all of this other stuff. It was really fun and I’m gonna miss playing it.
