Likely not. The App Stores have become freebie sites and ad revenue is highly overestimated.
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'Flappy Bird' Creator Promises to Remove Game From App Store Tomorrow
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Likely not. The App Stores have become freebie sites and ad revenue is highly overestimated.
I hit a new high score every week! But I only move up 1. And I play non stop.
The local river, rain water, dew, hell you could even distill your own piss if you wanted to!
You are talking about a much more limited definition of "free" than OC40 is eluding to.
Flappy bird has something like 28,000 reviews yesterday when I looked at it. Now it's at 146,725!
how many times have you tried playing? if you tried playing many times and never got past 1 that's sad Lol, but if you only played once then it's understandable.
I tried a lot. It's too hard. That's probably why he's done with it. It's too hard for him too.
While I've gotten higher than 1, I do agree that it's too hard. The jump up when you flap is too severe and the rate of drop when you don't flap is too fast. It makes it counter intuitive to control this little bird. Yes, you could get used to it, as evidenced by my eventual score, but fighting against expectation of the response as well as the obstacle course makes the game too hard, and by extension boring. Either the controls need to be a little more intuitive, or the difficulty of the obstacle course should start more gradually to "teach" the player how to use it.
The game reminds me quite a bit of one piece of another game. In Jetpack Joyride, there's a bonus vehicle you can find called the "Profit Bird" which works almost just like this, except that it works better. I've successfully dodged around all kinds of things for quite a distance with the Profit Bird.
The game reminds me quite a bit of one piece of another game. In Jetpack Joyride, there's a bonus vehicle you can find called the "Profit Bird" which works almost just like this, except that it works better. I've successfully dodged around all kinds of things for quite a distance with the Profit Bird.
'Flappy Bird' Creator Promises to Remove Game From App Store Tomorrow
Why's this news all over the Internet? Fans of the game, just make sure not to delete it from your device and you'll be fine. It's very likely that if you downloaded the game, you'll still be able to play it even when it gets pulled from the App Store. Oh my gosh, the tweets I've read from fans are just overly dramatic, it's funny.
People thought his decision behind removing it was that Nintendo was suing him for ripping off the "Mario Landscape". I think he should put up with it because really, people will forget about it in a few months, much like Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope, and Temple Run. Do you guys remember when they first got released? They were very popular, players tweeting their high scores and whatnot. Nothing compared to Flappy Bird.
Personally, I think the game is very overrated. I mean, there are a lot of games with the same concept as Flappy Bird in the App Store and they are actually playable.
Overusing it? What does he mean?
Why's this news all over the Internet? Fans of the game, just make sure not to delete it from your device and you'll be fine. It's very likely that if you downloaded the game, you'll still be able to play it even when it gets pulled from the App Store. Oh my gosh, the tweets I've read from fans are just overly dramatic, it's funny.
People thought his decision behind removing it was that Nintendo was suing him for ripping off the "Mario Landscape". I think he should put up with it because really, people will forget about it in a few months, much like Fruit Ninja, Cut the Rope, and Temple Run. Do you guys remember when they first got released? They were very popular, players tweeting their high scores and whatnot. Nothing compared to Flappy Bird.
Personally, I think the game is very overrated. I mean, there are a lot of games with the same concept as Flappy Bird in the App Store and they are actually playable.
Overusing it? What does he mean?
Overusing it? What does he mean?
Just because you happen to be "overusing it", doesn't mean he is accusing you personally.
Oh, boo hoo, I'm famous and my product is popular. Either it's a marketing ploy or he's a whiney wimp.
Lame...
Watch on monday morning you will see his next tweet.
Due to the overwhelming good response I have decided to keep the game going. Thank you for all the support!
Then he will laugh to himself about all he downloads he pulled in over the weekend.
Watch on monday morning you will see his next tweet.
Due to the overwhelming good response I have decided to keep the game going. Thank you for all the support!
Then he will laugh to himself about all he downloads he pulled in over the weekend.
