The Simpsons: Tapped Out is being delisted in October, shut down in January

EA struck gold in the early 2010s with The Simpsons Tapped Out, which quickly went on to become one of the most popular mobile games on the market. Now, after 12 years online, Tapped Out is being shut down. 

The Simpsons: Tapped Out will no longer be playable starting on the 24th of January 2025. On top of that, the game will be removed from download on the iOS App Store and the Google Play store on the 31st of October.

During its time, The Simpsons: Tapped Out received over 300 content updates, and grew to contain over 800 characters and well over 1,400 quests to play through. As the game was primarily driven by microtransactions in the form of premium currency, which could be used to skip timers to continue progressing, there is no offline mode for the game, so once the servers shut down, the title will be inaccessible.

As of 2014, the game had generated over $130 million for EA, but we don't know how much money the game generated since then. Given the boom in the mobile market, I would expect that the game ended up making over $1 billion over its lifetime.

KitGuru Says: The Simpsons: Tapped Out seemed like a fun game but was too heavily bogged down by microtransactions for my liking. Did any of you play this game back around launch? Do you still play it currently? 

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