From Put That Back: Lance Eustache explains why removing Flappy Bird during its peak was a huge mistake.
When a game released exclusively digitally disappears from distribution, it becomes impossible to play it legally. Actually, quite a few gems have disappeared in this manner, with the legendary P.T. being just the beginning of the story.
Nice message and physical should always be supported, but I am not supporting this article being set across like nine pages.
Using Overwatch Workshop, Thriver9 has created an Overwatch rendition of the popular Flappy Bird game.
FlappyBird, one of the most infamous games in recent history is still a game that’s being played nowadays. The newest software update to iPhone’s Operative System will be incompatible with Flappybird.
Its a 32bit app. iOS 11 is only compatible with 64bit apps.
App developers have been informed for the last 2 years that they need to update their apps to avoid this problem.
Customeers have been made aware with every new firmware update but no one reads patch notes.
I think Dong Nguyen doesn't want to gain infamy or a bad reputation from this game so he pulled the plug while it was still in its early days, as a way of saying "yeah I know it's a bad game, I didn't predict it would become popular like that". He might also want to avoid lawsuits from nintendo and whoever made that Piou Piuo game that's so similar
If he wants to work in the videogame industry, maybe this was a good move? I dunno.
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What gives you the right to determine if someone's socially motivated decision was a bad idea or not? He already made probably a million and he has voiced that now he just wants to go back to a more quiet life.