{"id":27922,"date":"2020-01-22T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27922"},"modified":"2020-01-22T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:19:31","slug":"farewell-tetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/22\/farewell-tetris\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Tetris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/01\/21\/ea-tetris-ios-retiring-april-2020\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2020\/01\/21\/ea-tetris-ios-retiring-april-2020\/\">\n<p>EA is ending support for its Tetris for iOS apps starting on April 21, 2020, the company announced today in app updates to <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/tetris-premium\/id479943969\">Tetris Premium<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/tetris\/id480805652\">Tetris 2011<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/tetris-blitz\/id632827808\">Tetris Blitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/ea-retiring-tetris-apps-for-ios-in-april-2020.2220654\/?post=28161663#post-28161663\">zorinlynx<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/ea-retiring-tetris-apps-for-ios-in-april-2020.2220654\/?post=28161663#post-28161663\"><p>It seems that this post on Reddit explains the situation better; EA had a 15 year license to distribute Tetris games on mobile and that license expires... You guessed it, April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m still irritated that they may kill off existing installs, though. The least they can do is just remove the online components of the game and leave the app playable for those who already have it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/20\/farewell-carcassonne\/\">Farewell, Carcassonne<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: EA is ending support for its Tetris for iOS apps starting on April 21, 2020, the company announced today in app updates to Tetris Premium, Tetris 2011, and Tetris Blitz. zorinlynx: It seems that this post on Reddit explains the situation better; EA had a 15 year license to distribute Tetris games on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-01-22T21:19:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"8d45b435-8cbc-4b63-974f-483661b99f6d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-01-22T21:19:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjUW0NYy8S2OXT0g2YbmfbQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,418,31,1667,26,1451,1662],"class_list":["post-27922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-business","tag-game","tag-ios","tag-ios-13","tag-iosapp","tag-sunset","tag-tetris"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27923,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27922\/revisions\/27923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}