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Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

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Re: Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

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Post by sp332 »

k__ wrote: post #16
jdhendrickson wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flappy Bird is a silly game in which you tap on the screen of your touch device to nagivate a (duck?) through a series of narrow paths delineated by tubes sprouting from the sky and ground. In the tradition of older 8 bit video games it's extremely unforgiving one mistake and you have to start over. It's apparently been a big hit. In regard to who the guy is, he is the developer of that silly game which he did for fu…

I don't get it. Why did he get harassed? Because he made money?

He got harassed because the game looks like it didn't take much work, and it's more popular than people think it deserves to be.

Re: Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

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Post by akmx9 »

UnfalseDesign wrote: post #8

I understand that he is probably wanting to get away from all the press coverage but I'm pretty sure this is not the right way to go about it. This might actually have the opposite effect. I had no intention of downloading it but knowing it is about to be removed, I'm going to download it.

Maybe that's what he wants to happen?

Re: Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

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Post by amark »

UnfalseDesign wrote: post #8

I understand that he is probably wanting to get away from all the press coverage but I'm pretty sure this is not the right way to go about it. This might actually have the opposite effect. I had no intention of downloading it but knowing it is about to be removed, I'm going to download it.

He's really a PR genius. When he restores Flappy Bird to the app store next week, after a week of the media writing about how it was taken down abruptly, It'll blow up even more.

Re: Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

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Post by jedanbik »

a-nom-a-ly wrote: post #9
[deleted] wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This behavior is disgusting in ways I cannot begin to describe. You didn't even attempt to do anything helpful, and probably didn't even read the post you responded to. To others: don't waste your time clicking on this link, it's just an obfuscated link to lmgtfy.com

I'd call it lazy or boorish. Disgusting is not the right word. Unhelpful, yes. Disgusting, no.

Re: Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore"

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Post by Aqueous »

manmal wrote: post #19

This very recent tweet from Dong seems to explain his motivation: https://twitter.com/dongatory/statuses/432096186313355264 other guy: "No problem, but you hate the success of Flappy Bird?" Dong: "Not because of them but because how people use my game. They are overusing it."

And in about a month or two Flappy Bird fever will wear off and folks will move onto something else.

Don't turn down millions of dollars because people are doing what people do! Someone remind him of all the folks who have downloaded his game and stopped playing nearly immediately...,

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