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		<title>EA Shutting Down Social Games</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Leonid Melikhov]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Say goodbye to your Social Facebook games ]]></description>
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<p>EA will be shutting down three of their Facebook games due to their restructuring. The three games that will be going down are Sims Social, Pet Society, and SimCity Social. The servers for these titles will be going offline on June 14th 2013.</p>
<p>Refunds will not be given on currency that was purchased for the free-to-play social games on Facebook despite the shut down.</p>
<p>However, EA will be giving players “a special offer to introduce you to a PopCap game,” <a title="according to this statement" href="https://www.ea.com/news/maxis-an-update-on-facebook-titles">according to this statement</a>. EA will be going towards PopCap games. PopCap are very well known for block-buster casual indie titles such as Plants vs Zombies and Peggle.</p>
<p>EA bought PopCap games back in July 2012. Ever since  John Riccitello resgiend back in March, EA has been going through some major changes including the <a title="EA Montreal" href="https://gamingbolt.com/ea-mobile-closed-by-electronic-arts">closure of their Montreal studio</a> which was responsible for free-to-play social games.</p>
<p>Stay tuned on GamingBolt for more news regarding EA and their future plans. Leave any comments you have down below.</p>
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		<title>SimCity Social Shutting Down on June 14th</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ravi Sinha]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Facebook game will be closing up in less than two months.]]></description>
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SimCity Social, the Facebook version of the wildly popular and also quite controversial city-building franchise, is being axed on June 14th according to an announcement on the <a href="http://forum.playfish.com/showthread.php?t=2968221">official forums</a> from the developing team.</p>
<p>&#8220;We want to inform everyone in our community that as of June 14th, SimCity Social will be retiring on Facebook. </p>
<p>&#8220;We know that you may be disappointed by this. Retiring games is never easy, we hope you&#8217;ve enjoyed playing SimCity Social as much as we enjoyed making it. Thank you to all of our passionate and dedicated players for supporting SimCity Social. We hope to see you in some of our other titles on Facebook and other platforms.&#8221;</p>
<p>The decision to cut the game was made by EA, in due part for the purpose of reallocating &#8220;development resources to other titles that we hope you’ll have just as much fun playing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Or maybe it&#8217;s a way of helping to push the new SimCity and its &#8220;social features&#8221; to a new audience. Thoughts?</p>
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