Aspromised , Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen has remove his torturous app from Apple ’s App Store . Flappy Bird is gone . It is survived byknockoffslikeClumsy BirdandHappy Poo Flap , and by the nightmares and pollex pain it has cause you these last few week .
https://gizmodo.com/wait-what-flappy-bird-creator-is-removing-the-game-1518969676
MacRumorsfirst notedthat while the removal is still seethe out , the app no longer look in App Store lookup or in the Top Free Games listing . It ’s also miss from a“Flappy Bird ” searchin Google Play , though for now it still shows up in the Top Free Apps chart there . Its expiry was as swift as one of its trial .
It ’s still not entirely clear why Nguyen is give up his$50,000 - a - dayship . The developer cite discomfort with all of the aid he had been getting :
I can call ' Flappy Bird ' is a success of mine . But it also ruins my simple biography . So now I hate it .
— Dong Nguyen ( @dongatory)February 8 , 2014
And also suggest that he may feel some guilt feelings over how obsessed people have become with his creation :
@misterlukeherb@kotakuNot because of them but because how people use my biz . They are overuse it .
Both of which are altogether valid reasons , although they annotate over another thoughtfulness : That Flappy Birdborrows quite heavilyfrom the world of Super Mario , and it ’s only a subject of time before the spotlight draws the attention of Nintendo ’s IP lawyers .
Of of course , remotion from the App Store does n’t stand for total extinction . If you ’ve already downloaded Flappy Bird , you ’ll be able-bodied to keep pother for just as long as you keep it on your phone ( and presumably , Nguyen will continue to make advertizement revenue off of those installations ) . Although to be fair , you might require to go in front and erase it ; after Dr. Frankenstein abandon his ogre , the villagers do n’t run to last .
App Store search termination for “ flappy shuttlecock ”
Google Play search results for “ flappy raspberry ”
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