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12 months ago

The Simpsons Tapped Out Forums Closure Announcement

Hey everyone!

We have an important announcement to make regarding the forums. Over the past years the TSTO Forums have been the place to talk about the game, find new neighbors, Help & Guide posts, provide feedback, and much more.

After careful consideration we have made the decision to close the TSTO Forums on December 13th, and move the community over to the Answers HQ forums. This move is aimed at providing you with a more seamless and engaging environment to connect, share, and collaborate with fellow players and the EA Community team.

What’s happening next?

November 13th
On November 13th, the forums will be locked and placed in Read-only mode until they are sunset. EA will eventually migrate the posts and replies from the TSTO Vanilla Forums to AHQ. If you’ve posted on the TSTO Vanilla Forums and you do not have an AHQ account, it’s recommended that you set up an AHQ account with the same email you used on Vanilla Forums so that we can properly identify the original author for these migrated posts. We do not have a solidified timeline for migrating the forum's content, so if you would like to copy and paste any guides or content over to AHQ, feel free to do so.

December 13th
On December 13th, the forums will be permanently closed and will no longer be accessible. Anyone trying to access the TSTO Forums using the URL will be redirected to the TSTO section on Answers HQ.

Our AHQ forums are reachable here.

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Thank you for being a part of our incredible community. We look forward to welcoming you to Answers HQ and continuing our engagement with you there.

Your EA Community Team!
  • If you cared you would listen to the CONSENSUS of the COMMUNITY!!! The community that has funded this whole project from the onset, just putting it out there, that any and ALL EA liscenced games will never see the light of day from me. If you choose after listening to everyone's stories, to still make the decision and disregard the people that helped you build this community, it is an utter shame that EA was supported.... Why not allow us to pay a monthly subscription to the game?? If you really did care, and really did listen to your play base, you would be humane!!! Let the CLASS ACTION speak for itself! 

    Don't take my vice, off my DE-Vice. 

  • Don't take my VICE off my De-Vice.

    Where do I even start...

    The community needs to band together now more than ever. 

    Surely you guys cannot just do this man.

    What about the individuals who really, I know it sounds so stupid, but what about the people who needed the game for that little extra spark? I know we live in an age where technology takes over, and where human interactions have been reduced to that of just taps...

    But surely the EA can devise a plan that will at least keep the town you have running. Leave the updates, leave the events, but just keep the town running please. I have been playing the game since I was 13, that's 10 years .... a lot of life happens in 10 years, a lot of trauma, heartbreak, loss, joy... People in this digital world have found their vices on there "devices" .... This game has gotten me through hardships, trials and tribulations... 

    How pathetic do I sound, getting my **bleep** in a tangle over a game, but its more than a game. I cannot even begin to explain how just keeping the little town of mine alive, kept me alive. [Pathetic I know] But id never apologize for that, this game had been a light in the disgustingly dark and hideous world... I really think, The Simpsons The Simpsons: Tapped Out , your team NEEDS to devise a plan before January 2025, to perhaps allow the player base to move their towns onto our own personal computers. You cannot just take something away from the community like this.. its ABSURD!!!! RUTHLESS!!! UNFAIR!!! UNCALLED FOR!!!

    Matt Groening never intended for people to get so attached, dependant and needy on the little yellow characters. But we have. And your upwards of $130 million client base, have remained loyal, in compensation to feelings hurt, economic loss sustained by this decision and the emotional toll it will take on 'certain' individuals of this community, it is only right to at least allow us the opportunity to continue our town, whether it be offline, or allow us TO AT LEAST transfer progress to our computers.

     

    Ultimately if EA is going to shut the game down, because there is a loss of players, I think throughout ALL games the company has made more than SUFFICIENT funds to keep the game up, (without any updates/new events), just as a THANK YOU to our Community... Surely for multi-million dollar company that is the ABSOLUTE LEAST THEY CAN DO???? 

     Community lets keep this game up, even if it is without any updates..... 

  • You already did that. It was Stupid for EA to open this new and then cancel the game… 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️ Should have just stayed on answers, not made this one. Explains a ton about the decisions being made there. J/S 💔

  • I put a lot of money into this game for you to take what I paid for away. Giving me free donuts is useless because you'll be taking them as well. This feels like a 12 year robbery and I feel like we all should get a lawyer involved. I could understand if you no longer want to make updates but to take what we paid for away if crazy, it's theft.