Flappy Bird to stop flapping

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Dong Nguyen, the developer behind Flappy bird, has threatened to take the popular game down due to his inability to cope with success.

It appears the lone developer cannot handle the success of his game, he claims it has changed his "simple life".

I can call ‘Flappy Bird’ is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it."Dong Nguyen"


It is estimated that he is making upwards of $50k a day via in-game ads while garnering 50 million downloads from the various platforms. Keith Shepherd, co-founder of the developer behind Temple Run, has reached out in a bid to help the struggling Dong cope. It is unclear at time of posting if he intends to accept the help.


We'll keep you updated on the latest regarding Flappy Bird and it's seemingly unstable developer.

How do you think you would cope if something you created had widespread success almost overnight?

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hhPosted:

I thought this game would have died, not be removed. Man he made so much money.

EmazedPosted:

It really is surprising how a game gained so much success and then gets taken down. At least those who still have it downloaded can still play it.

DanimalsPosted:

wow all the success and he takes it down. surprising really

HovaPosted:

Katsumi Well.. this actually happened and the game was taken down. Quite surprising if you ask me


I was surprised to I wasn't really expecting him to take it down.

KatsumiPosted:

Well.. this actually happened and the game was taken down. Quite surprising if you ask me

ValorPosted:

Int
Parcool hey guys if you downloaded this and deleted it you can get it back my doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7R6FDSBu88


thanks for this, +! it's helpful


Sweet! I didn't know you could do this, thanks a bunch.

IntPosted:

Parcool hey guys if you downloaded this and deleted it you can get it back my doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7R6FDSBu88


thanks for this, +! it's helpful

ParcoolPosted:

hey guys if you downloaded this and deleted it you can get it back my doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7R6FDSBu88

tryhardsamPosted:

I think the game was taking over people's lives a little more than was intended.

RGHSignedPosted:

Folk He was making 50k a day but i guess he doesn't like money.


If he made $50,000 a day and hes shutting it down now, hes probably set for life.

Flappy Bird hit the app store early December. Lets make an estimate and say December 10th of 2013? That's about 60 days to when he took it off? You're looking at well over $3,000,000 (rough estimate). That is if he is actually making about 50k a day. Pretty huge success for such a simple game like that.


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