{"id":134184,"date":"2025-10-20T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134184\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T15:45:08","slug":"the-sims-mobile-is-shutting-down-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/134184\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sims Mobile is shutting down next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The Sims is in a period of transition \u2014 and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version will be shutting down in a few months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ea.com\/games\/the-sims\/the-sims-mobile\/news\/final-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EA announced<\/a> that today\u2019s update for The Sims Mobile will be its last, and that on January 20th, 2026 the game \u201cwill no longer be accessible to play and will be sunset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The mobile iteration of the franchise first launched in 2018, and has seen more than 50 updates since then. EA says that starting today players will no longer be able to spend real money in the game, and that it will be delisted on both iOS and Android tomorrow before the servers shut down completely next year, making it entirely unplayable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sims is in a period of transition \u2014 and as part of that, the ongoing mobile version&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,117,7894,19,17,5,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-134184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gaming","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}