last May a developer an app developer in vietnam created something known as
floppy bird it is supposedly one of the worst
I games imaginable to very very simple and hard at the same time and I'll
explain why in a second but it became very very popular more than 50 million
people downloaded this game
and the developer his name is dong Nguyen
made up to fifty thousand dollars a day
at a certain period of time when it was really really popular
now he decided to police app it's no longer available on iTunes or in the
Google store and people are wondering why what's going on
well it turns out that he was concerned about ruining his life
UK probably because it is getting a lot of criticism for what the game really
was
so let me read to you what the game was the entire game consists of tapping the
screen repeatedly in order to pilot said bird
through the gaps between a series of pipes that look like they were ripped
straight from the original Super Mario Brothers
touch one and the bird dropped dead and does a big plant
game over so apparently even though the game is
simplistic in in nature it's actually really really difficult to get the bird
to go through the little gaps
so I'm it says that it sounds easy right up until you try it
unless your marvelously gifted you look at what could fly Bieber
thing anyway here lightly smack into the first pipe at least a dozen times before
you achieve even a modest score of 1
and then you're likely to do it a dozen more times before you get to
things do not get easier from there you can wait days without reaching
double-digits you can waste weeks without
out topping $25 so people were frustrated with the game
it locked really really cheap it was you too simplistic and that's all the game
is their art
different levels there are certain prizes you when so people are just
talking shit about a basic okay to this this goes one why was popular first
listen to why do we think this guy actually shut it down
so we bring on our star a nerd alert Kim Porter otherwise known as quarter
I 02 tells a have you play flappy bird before before was taken out a ser
I I've played very similar games because it's not really a new mechanic
but now I mechanic it's not a mechanic at all it's much like this order game
called copter
this other game a couple years ago called puke Elizabeth flash games and
now there's a
tinea clones at the top of the App Store and the Google Play Store
let me address that what for one second so I'm a bunch of people
%uh who work in security are saying that you should not download these clones
because
the majority of them contain malware Saudi a little warning to you guys
yet and then hoping to resume flat be something fly the plane flyby
et cetera you know so you get the point so Kim
why why do people like why is a high million people download this thing
I'm my best guess is because it's because it's so stupid and simplistic
and you fly and think you die over and over
I love mobile games the the factor behind them is that they're so
compulsive
like and you get this this feeling like this fucking game
I'm gonna be did I'm gonna I'm gonna be the master this game it can't beat me
and Pinoy people keep trying and trying and they keep dying and I just like
eat we'll there have been like a lot of tweets
about people being angry and frustrated and love it hate it and
as well as really hilarious app reviews about it ruining their lives
it it kinda gone and control we live in a strange world were
there's angry tweets about flat fee per yet just I don't know how I feel about
this story
like I i feel like im going to an emotional roller coaster Yahoo Store
yeah
okay why didn't you sound like nome do good
who created like the cheapest looking game on the planet at some point he was
making fifty thousand dollars
a day right would like to when my doing with my life
I you're talking about a guy making fifty thousand dollars yeah I don't we
your husband be 1000 Yale are you not angry about
dollar-a-day replaces hard
no I'm I'll slightly better sure a little many things it down and he he
said that it was running his life for whatever you can't take it anymore he
spoke to Forbes and Forbes after like okay dude you're making a ton of money
why did you really take this down
and he said that was messing with a simplistic life and then he also said he
was concerned about people getting addicted to it
of hard cock I don't come on you crazy or crazy
okay I'm is so for so I I want nobody can because I like to the internal
thinking in your head if you're going to beat this game on a big scale
make a.m. and I think your daily into something that is simple
play so like people like me I don't play video games anymore because I feel like
I've been playing the last 20 years
if I played sit down with anybody the US like yugoslavia fighting in the US that
my neck in the second half
by like games is so complicated now that if you don't know the triple backflip
you're an idiot and as so this is all going to do this
maybe he'd take taxis concern people are addicted to it no way
no way unless he's like super strange
so this some other reason and it's because he was worried it was gonna
negatively affect him but I can't quite figure out how well
if he's really worried about the spotlight subdued at fifty thousand a
day just pick the spotlight a couple more days
am here remember you can get the game anymore you can download anymore
but people who already have it you can ski play any song gets paid on
maybe it's a genius marketing because they get
everybody to talk about it and Erica can't wait for the next game is gonna
come out from Dawn
writing and he said yeah and so people keep spending money on Anton's
and it really is more precious why can't download anymore and I've got a lot to
keep playing with anyone ever lucky enough to play with Tong
up yeah