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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?
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...,
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...,
If this is a marketing trick, that's some next level shit. But I'm not suggesting that it is.
He seems to be a normal guy, not a PR genius. But, yeah, "The game with 50,000,000 downloads will be taken off the app stores in the next 22 hours" is brilliant.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/5/5383708/flappy-bird-revenue...
By announcing it, though, he's drawing an incredible amount of attention to the game which leads me to believe this was the intended effect. Heck, it made me download it as I've never played it before.
Genius move.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...,
This might come as a shocker to many people on HN, but many people do not like money.
This is a great opportunity for someone to make a (good) clone of this game and clean up!
But this game's concept has been around since forever already, also on other app store titles, so... idk.
Also, I was thinking of more of a blatant rip off. I'd imagine those rip offs that are already out there are going to see a spike in downloads in the next couple days when people go to find this game and it isn't there.