User blog comment:LostInRiverview/The Sims 2 website shutting down/@comment-5853967-20130109153120

This is a natural life cycle of a 'commercial' site, which is designed with planned obsolescence in mind, not that of video games. Using an official site for gathering information or getting mods is rather naive, because such a place cannot be impartial, and would go extra lenghts in protecting its copyright, even if that sacrifices usablity or causes legitimate work to be deleted.

I answered that I no longer play it, because I have long finished exploring the world. No other sim game has taken the place of TS2.