Flappy Bird creator says popular game will fly no more

[bananas]

Source: Reuters

The developer of Flappy Bird, currently the most popular free mobile game on Apple App Store and Google's Android Play store, has announced that he is taking the game down at midnight (1700 GMT) on Sunday.

Nguyen Ha Dong, a Hanoi-based game developer, announced the grounding of the addictive game in a Tweet at 1900 GMT on Saturday in which he also apologised to Flappy Bird players.

"22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down," Dong said adding: "It is not anything related to legal issues."

"I cannot take this anymore," he wrote.

Flappy Bird has caused a sensation after rising out of obscurity to become one of the most downloaded mobile games on both Apple and Google's online stores.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/09/vietnam-flappybird-idUSL3N0LE05720140209

[bananas]

1. Download it while you can!

I've never played it, and I probably never will, but I downloaded it and saved it to sdcard with a backup app!
Just in case!

[Neoma]

6. It was pretty damn good advertisement, so I did yesterday. :)

[Veilex]

12. Frankly, its not worth the download.

At least that's my opinion.

[JackInGreen]

2. Good

it was less of a game and more of a 'momentary distraction between ad revenue sinks' as it was anyway...

[bananas]

3. Apparently, it was very popular.

"Let Me Tell You About That Time I Played 'Flappy Bird' For 8 Hours"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-casti/flappy-bird-marathon-played-8-hours_b_4746747.html?ir=Technology

"Creator Of Runaway Mobile Hit Flappy Bird Taking Game Down"
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/08/273662615/creator-of-runaway-mobile-hit-flappy-bird-taking-game-down

etc etc

[CFLDem]

4. It's the ol' get it while you can ruse.

[dipsydoodle]

5. aka the hurry up trick.

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[PatrynXX]

9. ie steal the apk

find the apk and viola like Flash. can still get that apk

[Helen Borg]

7. What exactly...

Cannot he take anymore? It's not like he's shipping out copies of Flappy Bird by hand!!??

[bananas]

8. Maybe he was addicted to his own game

and every time he tried to go cold turkey and delete it,
he would just download it again?

[PatrynXX]

10. I've tried that with Postal 2

severely addicting. Especially with the nude mod on. have a 2009 patch on it and it took care of most of the crashes. and Steam came up with a big patch in Dec 2013 I assume because Postal 3 really stank . thanks to gog.com I can go over there and redownload the game smh and that nude mod isn't entirely easy to find.. easier to find the 2009 patch..

[Grassy Knoll]

11. It looks like a Super Mario bonus level

the graphics and sounds are the same, but 100x as hard. It took me 20 minutes
just to get 5 coins.

[kimbutgar]

13. I saw the addiction to Flappy Bird first hand and it is addictive

My 14 year niece, 16 year nephew and a 49 year old women were sitting with me at a table on super bowl sunday and they were mesmerized by the game. I couldn't download the app on my ancient IPAD 1 otherwise I would have been caught up in the game. It kind of reminds me of pac man or super mario jumping over the fences.

Something tells me this will come back as a paid app.

[Plucketeer]

14. Like folks don't walk around (or set entranced) looking at a little screens enough already!

Assuming our race manages to survive another 40 years, it'll be interesting to see if ANYBODY is doing ANYTHING besides wearing coke-bottle eye wear and suffering from thumb callouses.

[erpowers]

15. Attempt to Get More People to Download?

I wonder if he is doing this just to get more people to download the game. It seems he stands to make more money if more people download his game. According to one article he was already making $50,000 per day from this game and the main form of advertisement had come from an online gamer who had made a YouTube video claiming the game was great. Now with his announcement millions more have heard of the game and might have downloaded the game. Maybe with the extra downloads he will make even more money.

[MADem]

16. How did I miss that craze....?

Said a bit sarcastically...but seriously, I've never heard of this game before reading this blurb, which I guess is suggestive of the fogey-esque circles in which I travel.

The last "bird furore" I remember was Angry Birds!

[arikara]

19. Me too

and I never tried that either. I used to be pretty good at pac man back in the day, we had an old game that came out of a pub. My daughter and I used to play a version called "cat pac man" the rule was when the cat got on the table you couldn't move him and you had to play through by memory. He'd get up and shift around to keep it fair. We loved it but it drove anybody else who tried to play crazy. You could never do challenges like that with an iphone.

[Grassy Knoll]

17. He kept his word, it's gone. n/t

[PeoViejo]

18. He needs more time to run his Furniture Store.

He's having a 'Bankruptcy-everything goes' event next Week.

[jsr]

20. Following Takedown, Flappy Bird Hatches Anew on eBay for $100,000

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/idUS234164831820140210

[d_r]

21. its kind of crappy little game

he probably got tired of people asking for bug fixes and since it was very successful figured he ought to get out and sell it while the getting was good.