EA shutting down 'Sims Social' and other Facebook games, insists 'activity has fallen off'

Electronic Arts and Maxis have announced that on June 14th, several Facebook games including The Sims Social, SimCity Social, and Pet Society will be permanently taken offline. The publisher isn't being shy about the cause: it squarely blames a decline in user activity for the shutdown. "After millions of people initially logged in to play these games, the number of players and amount of activity has fallen off," reads a statement from EA's staff on the company blog. EA goes so far as to point o...