Flappy Bird and a Serious Amount of Anger

It's official: the viral app is now out of the Google Play and Apple's App Store.

For the less attentive to these matters, Flappy Bird is a videogame that was running rampant on smartphones and tablets. The premise of the game? Well, nothing. You control a (flappy) bird by tapping on the screen in order to avoid Super Mario looking pipes and if you can't, it's game over for you. Each set of pipes you avoid getting hit by is worth a point. The beauty about this is that it doesn't have any of the usual evil methods used by these games in order to stay addictive. You don't have to wait for anything, buy anything, learn or achieve anything other than the sheer simplistic gameplay and reaching the highest high score possible.

According to very serious reports, this game is highly addictive and it will put you under high amounts of pressure every time you won't be able to beat your own high score. Dong Nguyen, the game's creator, stated that anything that could be added to this game would quite simply ruin it. This game has achieved perfection in its own measure.

Since then, it has been the number one downloaded app on Google Play and has amassed over a million of players as well as lots of attention from all sorts. Added to this, this game reportedly made a profit of a whooping daily $50.000 solely on ads.

This is why it came as a surprise when Dong Nguyen announced in his twitter account that he would be taking down this game citing the reasons as too much pressure and attention which were apparently threatening his view of a peaceful life. Among queries about lawsuits, updates, Nguyen stated that there are and there won't be none.

Of course, many fervent followers (and probably many newly created followers) seem to be asking to pay in order to download the game and many say this is just a publicity stunt in order to bring even more attention to this highly complex development. Honestly, I think Nguyen has had it. He won't be bothering with Flappy Bird anymore and shouldn't.

The remaining fans should take the hint and waste their time on some other addicting release for smartphones. We all know there are way too many of them.

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