The Sims Mobile Is Being Shutdown After Nearly Eight Years

EA will quickly shut down The Sims Mobile after practically eight years of updates. As you may count on, longtime followers of the cell spin-off aren’t completely satisfied about EA’s choice, but in addition aren’t shocked, as the sport had stopped receiving substantial new content material updates a while in the past.

Launched again in 2018. The Sims Cell is a free-to-play cell spin-off of Maxis and EA’s fashionable life simulator collection, The Sims. When it launched all these years in the past, it was a giant hit for EA, bringing in $25 million in its first six months on the market. And since then, the sport has acquired over 50 free updates whereas additionally being labored on by three completely different studios. And now, it’s all wrapping up as EA prepares to delist the sport, unlock all of the content material for folks nonetheless taking part in, and ultimately flip off the servers for good.

On October 19, EA posted an update on the official Sims Mobile website asserting that the F2P cell recreation could be formally delisted from all cell shops on October 21. In-app transactions may even be turned off. Gamers will nonetheless have the ability to play The Sims Cell and even redownload and set up it after that date, however new people received’t have the ability to be part of within the enjoyable. Then on January 6, 2026, EA will unlock all Construct Mode and Create A Sim objects for all gamers no matter stage. The thought is to provide gamers two weeks to construct their dream houses and create their excellent Sim characters. Then all of it dies. On January 20 at 1:59 PM UTC, The Sims Cell servers will flip off and received’t flip again on once more. That’s it. As a result of the sport is on-line solely and all knowledge is saved on EA’s servers, as soon as they’re shut off, the sport is lifeless.

“On behalf of the entire Sims Cell workforce, thanks for sharing this superb journey with us,” stated the workforce behind the sport. “We hope you benefit from the last replace and that these last months permit everybody to complete tasks, make reminiscences, and rejoice their Sims.”

The writing was on the wall for Sims Cell. Last year, EA announced that the game would no longer get new updates. This was the primary large signal amongst gamers that the getting old recreation was probably not going to be round for for much longer. Still, over on the Sims Mobile subreddit, longtime gamers are mourning the information and upset with EA for killing the sport, as many view The Sims Freeplay—one other cell Sims recreation—to be an inferior, uglier, and extra microtransaction-riddled spin-off. Others weren’t completely satisfied that EA let the sport reside in zombie mode for a 12 months and continued to let folks make investments cash into Sims Cell.

“What can I even do at this level? I really feel robbed by EA. I had no prior information till I found this Reddit when the Instagram web page introduced this,” stated one consumer who has been taking part in since they have been 12.