Topic: Flappy Bird Removed, iPhone 5S for sale with Flappy Birds (WTF) (Read 1311 times)

Don't believe everything you see on Twitter.

I doubt it: http://hollywoodlife.com/2014/02/10/flappy-bird-suicide-dong-nguyen-death-hoax/

I heard that the creator commit suicide, is that true?

Exactly man.

Iphone 5s gold with flappy 50 btc anyone?

haha, the apps is more expansive then the phone itself..

Yeah, the must be more to it. He probably had legal pressure from someone. If he was just fed up from the attention he could've just kept it up and running and just refused media attention etc and kept himself to himself.

The story of "it ruined my usual lifestyle" is something fishy for sure. Don't everybody want to change their lifestyles for the better? Since the guy made 50k/day, I assume there's something behind the curtains. Something should've went extremely wrong for the author to effectively kill his app.

Maybe, premature market testing, copyright problems, or a part of viral campaign. The latter one is something extremely unlikely to be true, I believe. You don't usually promote one of the most popular apps in such a weird way.

I'll sell my Samsung Galaxy S6310N with installed flappy bird and a high score of 88 for 1 bitcoin

What a bunch of pipe smokers.

Yes the only reason people were sending threats was because of the pipes looking similar I think.

If you want to wait 365 days then yes.

Is it true that Nintendo is suing Flappy Bird?

Well that's Nintendo fanboys for you. People don't like it when other people get rich.


You accept PP? 

Because he used the same looking pipes? Idiots.

I haven't played it or even heard of it till yesterday, but it does look like they ripped of Mario a bit. I bet the guy has had some lawsuit threats from someone and didn't like the heat or attention.

What do you mean by assets? Imagery and gameplay or actual code?

AFAIK the developer took it down because he was receiving death threats and other such abuse for using old-school Nintendo assets.

Not from Nintendo, just rabid fanboyism:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.841885-Update-Flappy-Bird-Creator-Is-Removing-The-Game-From-Stores?page=1

The general logic is of consequentialism: "It's violation of copyright, therefore wrong.  If you disagree with the law, you are wrong."  We cannot blame corporations for this one; people willingly follow along with this.  Budding indie developers use other game's assets often, as they typically do not have access to competent artists to assist them; however, it's important to note that there is no problem with these games using these assets, until they become successful; i.e., only when money is involved.  Naturally, people don't actually care about upholding the law--they break it several times a day, and I can guarantee the majority of people screaming law violation have themselves illegally listened to a copyrighted song on YouTube without paying, if not having downloaded them in any other format--for they are given no incentive from Nintendo to attack this developer; rather, the incentive, as is always the case with the successful vs. the unsuccessful, is in the unsuccessful's hatred toward success, as it kills their excuse as to why they are so, and will willingly drag down anyone who is successful in any way possible: in this case, pathetically, with a beginner's game which happened to find its way to the #1 spot on the mobile platform.

The developer could easily, by now, replace the graphics with something else--spriting is not a complicated art by any means--but this does not change the chilling effect that copyright has on people trying to get into any creative field, and the actions taken against Nguyen by his fellow man will serve to discourage others to take up game development, which is the very point.  Another case of our self-defeating society favoring victimless crimes at our own detriment.

Can you do that with any app like the blockchain one?

This game is for low-life beings.
You can get the file and install it on the iphone without it being on the store. Pointless.