Bye, bye ‘Flappy Bird’

For game developer Dong Nguyen, the flak he has drawn from his wildly successful creation, “Flappy Bird” was too much to bear. He announced via a tweet on Sunday, February 9, at about 3 am Manila time, that he was taking down the game. “I just cannot keep it anymore, ” he said. Netizens have criticized the highly addictive “Flappy Bird” as a “pretty terrible game.” In a tweet on Saturday, February 8, Nguyen said, “I can call ‘Flappy Bird’ is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.” He said he wanted to be left alone and that the media had overrated the game’s success. “Please give me peace,” Nguyen asked. By early Monday morning, February 10, Nguyen had pulled “Flappy Bird” from both the iOS app store and Google Play.

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