# The Simpsons: Tapped Out **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [December 6, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231 "2012-12-06T21:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 326
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6510 "2024-08-16T14:31:49Z")
I don’t think it’s available any longer. I haven’t been able to do it so I guess the feature changed before I got the building. > **[land tokens for donutsThe Simpsons Tapped Out AddictsAll Things The Simpsons...](https://tstoaddicts.com/tag/land-tokens-for-donuts/)** > > Posts about land tokens for donuts written by Alissa ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6511 "2024-08-16T23:00:31Z")
Thanks. I had looked on that site but didn’t find that post. So if it still works, when you have 12 land tokens it’s in the store. A donut box appears and it says “exchange land tokens for donuts” in the options of things you can buy. I don’t have 12 tokens yet, but I should again soon and will check in a few days. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2024, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6512 "2024-08-29T22:12:53Z")
I think I figured out why I couldn’t sell my extra land tokens: I have more land plots to buy than tokens. So if I had 5 plots of land and 18 tokens, it’d let me sell them. But because we got dozens and dozens and dozens of plots for sale, it seems to be making me use them before I can exchange them. That’s my guess. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6513 "2024-09-26T20:05:55Z")
You guys saw Tapped Out is ending in January, right? > **[EA Will Be Sunsetting The Simpsons: Tapped Out After 12 Years - IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/ea-will-be-sunsetting-the-simpsons-tapped-out-after-12-years)** > > EA has confirmed that it's sunsetting free-to-play mobile game The Simpsons: Tapped Out after 12 years online. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6514 "2024-09-26T21:13:42Z")
D’oh! I’ll miss it… but not that much. I don’t think I ever “broke” a game like I broke this one. My current % is 10,686.12 and I once tracked to see how many donuts I could clear if I had everyone of my characters on 24hr tasks and I pressed the finger which collected all my building cash and it was 378. And the craziest thing… I logged into it just because of this post and I just happened to find my Golden Goose reality office! And because I found the GG Reality office, I decided to hunt up the land we are now able to get… just in time for it not to matter. Timing is everything, folks. Well, it’s been real and, at times, it’s been real fun. Keep on tapping! ---
**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6515 "2024-09-26T21:35:34Z")
I wasn’t there from the very beginning, but pretty early. Game was released on iOS in the US on March 1, 2012. The App Store says I downloaded it on December 11, 2012. It’s certainly been a time waster. I don’t think I’ll go down with the ship. Deleting the app today. Seems pointless to play now (as if there ever really was a point). ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6516 "2024-09-26T22:06:21Z")
I couldn’t see where it says when i downloaded it. Nice touch with them making the open screen a literal sundown ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6517 "2024-09-26T22:51:58Z")
oh no. I was taking a brief break but it’s still sad ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6518 "2024-09-26T22:59:11Z")
There’s a part of my mind that wonders if it’s a Halloween prank. I mean, what’s scarier than the game going away? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6519 "2024-09-27T13:38:40Z")
Now I don’t know what to believe anymore. I got TSTO as soon as it was available for Android and I’ve been playing it ever since. At one point it was my favorite fame though now I generally just log on twice a day unless there are quests available to do. I also remember rumors of TSTO ending a couple years back and I have to say I’m surprised that it is. It seems like a successful game to me. I don’t know what EA is making from it but it seems like they’re at the point where they have a (somewhat) stable platform and can just plug in new content whenever. Per Wiki, EA estimates that they made over $130 million in revenue as of 2014, that sounds like a decent amount to me. There are a handful of other games that I play but there really isn’t anything that I’ve found that I liked quite like TSTO. There was a Futurama game but I couldn’t get into it and I am disinterested in anything with Family Guy. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6520 "2024-09-27T14:07:00Z")
I started playing TS:TO after reading this thread. In the beginning it was fun building a thought out, detailed Springfield, but the UI isn’t really adequate for organizing all the content you end up with. For a some years I spent a lot of time on TS:TO events to get buildings and decorations, but never really made an effort to build an exciting cityscape out of the new pieces. Especially after my multiplier got high enough for donut mining. I try to sort them thematically. I have a corner where I plumb down the fantasy stuff, one for christmasy things, one for european landmarks and then I figured some day I would make it look nice. Maybe I’ll actually do it now, before that january date. Then make a screendump, so I have something out of all those hours I spent. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6521 "2024-09-27T14:48:55Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Now I don’t know what to believe anymore. I got TSTO as soon as it was available for Android and I’ve been playing it ever since. At one point it was my favorite fame though now I generally just log on twice a day unless there are quests available to do. > > I also remember rumors of TSTO ending a couple years back and I have to say I’m surprised that it is. It seems like a successful game to me. I don’t know what EA is making from it but it seems like they’re at the point where they have a (somewhat) stable platform and can just plug in new content whenever. Per Wiki, EA estimates that they made over $130 million in revenue as of 2014, that sounds like a decent amount to me. > > There are a handful of other games that I play but there really isn’t anything that I’ve found that I liked quite like TSTO. There was a Futurama game but I couldn’t get into it and I am disinterested in anything with Family Guy. I was doing the Futurama game for a little while but it stunk. Everything was cluttered up on the screen. It was very clunky and a just wasn’t having fun. > [@Chelonaut](#): > > I started playing TS:TO after reading this thread. In the beginning it was fun building a thought out, detailed Springfield, but the UI isn’t really adequate for organizing all the content you end up with. > > For a some years I spent a lot of time on TS:TO events to get buildings and decorations, but never really made an effort to build an exciting cityscape out of the new pieces. Especially after my multiplier got high enough for donut mining. > > I try to sort them thematically. I have a corner where I plumb down the fantasy stuff, one for christmasy things, one for european landmarks and then I figured some day I would make it look nice. > > Maybe I’ll actually do it now, before that january date. Then make a screendump, so I have something out of all those hours I spent. Yeah my town started off looking pretty then I just had too much to build roads and such to make it look good ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6522 "2024-09-27T15:05:49Z")
Honestly this was a good run for this type of game. Futurama got shut down years ago. I was quite shocked though when trying to look up the end date of _Family Guy Quest for stuff_ to find out that its still going! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6523 "2024-09-27T17:26:48Z")
> [@Chelonaut](#): > > I started playing TS:TO after reading this thread. In the beginning it was fun building a thought out, detailed Springfield, but the UI isn’t really adequate for organizing all the content you end up with. Let’s face it - the gameplay _in general_ is very meh. The best part of the game was the stories - in the first 60 or so levels, then in the events. They had the actual Simpson’s writers working on them. I know a lot of people had fun creating “3-D” effects; I never had the creativity to do much of that. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6524 "2024-09-27T18:48:22Z")
They’ve implemented bigger donut hauls using in-game currency. 3 million dollars will buy you 1600 donuts. For anyone who wasn’t maxed out on things to buy with donuts, this is your chance. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6525 "2024-09-27T19:41:52Z")
Would be able to buy over 2.2 million donuts with my $4.2 billion. I went ahead and paid/tapped my way through all remaining quests on my timeline, including the Final quest. There’s a final building which fulfills all of Homer’s dreams (you’ll see), and when done, you get a final screen which has the characters looking off in the distance. And, lastly, everything the game offered is now purchasable. At least, that’s how it seemed to me as I saw a _lot_ of stuff which was unfamiliar. Kind of sad, yes. ---
**Author:** ![Fair\_Rarity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fair_rarity/32/153_2.png) [@Fair\_Rarity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fair_Rarity)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6526 "2024-09-27T21:35:05Z")
A day later, I’m still sad but it’s also more bittersweet. Its time had come because we don’t get real events any more and even I, an almost-daily player for like 10, 11 years, was getting bored. If I had to pick one of my games to die, it’d be this one. If I HAD to pick. My one thing I guess is that it would be nice if a) it had done one last old-style epic Halloween event and b) let everything ever be purchasable in the yearbook or whatever. I decided to uninstall all my downloads of it and just do a clean break rather than drag it out. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6527 "2024-09-27T22:19:04Z")
It feels like there are some characters that I haven’t gotten. I’m not sure though, there are so many. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6528 "2024-09-27T22:25:40Z")
The closing text mentioned over 800 characters. I am at 600 or so. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231/6529 "2024-09-28T18:21:34Z")
read this today > **[Why The Simpsons: Tapped Out servers are shutting down](https://en.as.com/meristation/news/why-the-simpsons-tapped-out-servers-are-shutting-down-n/)** > > It’s the end of an era for mobile games, as Electronic Arts has confirmed the shutdown of The Simpsons: Tapped Out after over a decade of service. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=325) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-simpsons-tapped-out/643231.md?page=327)