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My personal score is 102 and I appreciate the game for what it is.
The owner is pretty vague about it on twitter, but I'm pretty sure they're taking it down due to how it effects their quality of life: https://twitter.com/dongatory/status/432095426854912000
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This might come as a shocker to many people on HN, but many people do not like money.
Yep they either have it already or they are fucking idiots. It's a fundamental lack of appreciation for good luck.
I feel for the guy. He made something a while ago, put on the market without much fanfare and then out of the blue his game suddenly shot to the top and raked in 50 million downloads. If you're not expecting it and you don't have the right people around you, all this publicity (a lot of which is quite negative, despite the game's popularity) can be pretty hard to take for some people. Remember Susan Boyle's breakdown…
You could speculate that he is trying to make a name for himself, so that the upcoming games would make him a stable income. As an indie developer he should know the fact that Flappy Bird won't last long - for example, Rovio is making over half of its income from other physical brand items. I'm not saying you will see Flappy Bird soda next year, but the games Dong releases later will most likely gain more attention thanks to Flappy Bird and Twitter is a way to make sure that the fans will notice it.
My teenager students will be devastated by this. They really liked the game. We also had a good class discussion about adverts, the amount of money you can get from adverts, and the cost of living in Hanoi. The main thing is that they worked out that there is a human being who lives somewhere and who has a name sitting down at a computer and hacking away at this game so they can play it.
Incidentally, Hanoi is a really nice town, and unlike most neighbouring jurisdictions Vietnam doesn't tax imported food and wine products to oblivion. Internet there's a lot better than in neighbouring China or Laos, and they don't have a Cambodia/Sweden style history of randomly exfiltrating hackers without due legal process.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This might come as a shocker to many people on HN, but many people do not like money.
Yep they either have it already or they are fucking idiots. It's a fundamental lack of appreciation for good luck.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep they either have it already or they are fucking idiots. It's a fundamental lack of appreciation for good luck.
Dude common. You have to see it from his point of view. His money and fame aren't coming from a prestigious accomplishment. He probably doesn't want to be known for a flappy bird game for the rest of his life. Imagine being the guy who invented the turd scrubber brush next to the toilet. Everyone owns that brush but would you want to be known for it? Associated with it?
I know that people can have strangely fragile egos but the idea of being upset for being known for something, no matter how benign, is completely foreign to me.
The owner is pretty vague about it on twitter, but I'm pretty sure they're taking it down due to how it effects their quality of life: https://twitter.com/dongatory/status/432095426854912000
Sounds like he made a mistake and is paying for it now. If he really wanted a simple life, he should not have published a game under his own name.