Bye, doll.
Kim Kardashian’s mobile game “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” is shutting down after nearly 10 years in the app stores.
“I’m so grateful from the bottom of my heart to everyone who has loved and played Kim Kardashian: Hollywood in the past 10 years,” Kardashian, 43, told The Post on Wednesday. “This journey has meant so much to me but I’ve realized that it’s time to focus that energy into other passions.”
“I want to thank the Glu [Mobile] team and the many people behind the scenes who have worked diligently on making it a success. I will be forever inspired by this community that we built together,” she said of the developer she launched the game with in June 2014.
The game has completely vanished from the Apple and Android app stores, and is reportedly alerting those who already had it downloaded that the game “no longer offers in-app purchases and has been removed from app stores.”
Players who already have the app downloaded will be able to play it until it shuts down on April 8.
The game took players on a journey to achieve A-List stardom by gaining fans through acting, modeling, making club appearances and high-profile romantic relationships.
It earned in $1.6 million in its first five days on the market, according to Glu Mobile.
“Her ability to make the game part of her world is part of her ability to reach her fanbase,” Glu CEO Niccolo de Masi told Business Insider in 2014. “She’s very digitally savvy, which helps get people into the game that have never played games before.”
Kardashian’s sisters Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian, as well as her half-sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner, and their momager Kris Jenner all appeared as characters in the game.
The now-Mrs. Travis Barker and the Skims founder famously got into an argument about Kourtney’s involvement in the game in a 2015 episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
Kim wanted her sisters to be in the game as a “favor” whereas Kourtney didn’t understand why they’d use her “name and likeness” but not pay them. Kourtney later claimed she didn’t care about the money, just didn’t “care to do random things.”
In addition to the Kardashian clan, celebrities like André Leon Talley and NeNe Leakes also appeared in the game.
Forbes previously reported that the game made $74.1 million in the first six months of its release. By 2016, it had been downloaded over 40 million times.
Nowadays, Kim is a billionaire entrepreneur with businesses including her SKKN By Kim skincare line, Skims shapewear, and her private equity firm, SKKY Partners.
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