Can someone tell me the exact place on my head where I could drill a hole and delete the memory of "Flappy Bird" ?
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Flappy Bird Creator Reveals Why He Pulled the App, 'Considering' Returning Flappy Bird to App Store
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I believe him. Some people are just wired differently and have different motivations. Kinda reminds me of someone...
But about the game, it sucks. I don't get why it's addicting at all. It's really hard and I stopped playing it after 15 minutes...
But about the game, it sucks. I don't get why it's addicting at all. It's really hard and I stopped playing it after 15 minutes...
I'm glad i'm not alone on this, my respects to the app developer, to all the nay-sayers, money does not buy happiness
As small white car said, maybe we do not belong here anymore..
I'm going to take a guess that a M5 is kind of unwieldy to park in Vietnam.
Think this thread is proof that:
1: there's a lot of rabid, jealous nerds around who would have loved to have made this, but never will do anything even remotely successful.
2: most people in the thread don't have a conscience and can't believe it when faced with someone who has.
3: nearly everyone in the thread can't work out that the creator has lost around 50k in revenue a day and will likely not see his game peak again at this level.
It's not uncommon for people and companies to pull products when faced with moral outrage. The smaller you are, the less pressure it takes for you to cave in, especially if you are sympathetic to the cause.
Carry on raging with the PR conspiracies.
(I have a 105 Flappy Bird score btw, fun little game).
1: there's a lot of rabid, jealous nerds around who would have loved to have made this, but never will do anything even remotely successful.
2: most people in the thread don't have a conscience and can't believe it when faced with someone who has.
3: nearly everyone in the thread can't work out that the creator has lost around 50k in revenue a day and will likely not see his game peak again at this level.
It's not uncommon for people and companies to pull products when faced with moral outrage. The smaller you are, the less pressure it takes for you to cave in, especially if you are sympathetic to the cause.
Carry on raging with the PR conspiracies.
(I have a 105 Flappy Bird score btw, fun little game).
$50k US per day must be an impossibly large amount of money for a previously average or slightly above average person who lives in Vietnam. I read in big cities people make about $250 per MONTH/$3,000 USD per year. Wikipedia says per capita income is $1,130 USD per year.
Isn't this an indicator that he's NOT obsessed with money? To him, a Mini Cooper is a luxury.
The vast majority of posts here are trolling the guy and calling him a liar, but aren't these money-obsessed posts just a reflection of the poster's own personal values?
If your own brush is dirty, there's no need to tar others with it.
Just to clarify, this is not at all what my point was.
There has never been a time when everyone agreed with each other. That's fine. There'd be no point if we did.
But I remember a time when it was split between respectful people who wanted to talk about Macs an simple trolls you could ignore. These days (and this thread in particular) shows that the norm is now somewhat different.
There used to be lots of talk about Apple vs. Microsoft back in the day but I never recall even the worst trolls saying "F Steve Jobs" or stuff like what we're seeing here.
I can agree with you there. The site grew and while it grew into a money maker for the owner, it also grew into an entirely different bear for some of the more established members.
Nothing new under the sun.
Looking atthe screen shots, I can only think that Flapping Birds is a combination of "Joust" (early '80s Williams arcade game with "flap" button) and "Looping" (an early '80s one-hit wonder Venture Solutions arcade game where the player has to manuever a plane through balloons and a maze of pipes. using only up and down controls, making a looping motion with the plane as needed.) If Nintendo has a beef against Flapping Birds, Venture Solutions has a beef with Nintendo.
Looking atthe screen shots, I can only think that Flapping Birds is a combination of "Joust" (early '80s Williams arcade game with "flap" button) and "Looping" (an early '80s one-hit wonder Venture Solutions arcade game where the player has to manuever a plane through balloons and a maze of pipes. using only up and down controls, making a looping motion with the plane as needed.) If Nintendo has a beef against Flapping Birds, Venture Solutions has a beef with Nintendo.
The only proof in this thread is that mindless people are very naive. If people here were jealous of the guy, there's lots of others to be jealous over in the app store.
Lot's of us question the true motives of a person who says they hate the spotlight and yet act like an attention whore. This is the last time I say that. Quit insulting us, calling us names, telling us we have no conscience or morals, or all of your posts are going to start getting marked.
Because it's hilarious that you naive fools can spend all your time insulting everyone else and then talk about how this used to be a place where nobody insulted each other.
Well, go worship your little attention whore somewhere else. You will certainly have more time to hear your idol go on about how much he hates the media in more magazines in the future.
If he really shied away from publicity, then why do an interview with Rolling Stone, one of the largest and most famous publications in the world?
Fact is we may never know: with the increased exposure, he shall make a massive amount of money the moment the app goes back on sale... And at this point his decision making process is no doubt skewed by tremendous commercial incentive.
Yeah, he took it out of the app store when it was making over $50k a day, and he took it out and now it generates "tens of thousands" of dollars a day. Genius!
Excellent point. People in 1st world countries, particularly the US, do not seem to understand how different it is. Take here, mexico, for example. People do not tend to blame others for their problems and have more self responsibility. For example, if you are walking along and fall in a manhole the problem is not that it was uncovered or unblocked but that you were not paying attention. That's just how it is, there is no "it's everyone else's fault" mindset. If you are in a store and fall nobody sues the business as they will never win.
OK, you take someone raised this way and all of a sudden whiney people are attacking them because of what THEY and THEIR CHILDREN are doing plus death threats and I can see where it could be overwhelming.
I am not so quick to dismiss the man as I know there is life outside the "it's everyone else's fault" countries.
OK, you take someone raised this way and all of a sudden whiney people are attacking them because of what THEY and THEIR CHILDREN are doing plus death threats and I can see where it could be overwhelming.
I am not so quick to dismiss the man as I know there is life outside the "it's everyone else's fault" countries.
I see what you are saying, but not really how it relates to this story. I mean according to the mindset you describe, say that I play a game to the point where it can be classified as addiction, then it's my fault, not the developer. Yet one of the stated reasons for removing it was the effect it had on people, thus taking some kind of responsibility or "blame" for the action of others.
I see it as fitting exactly. All of this flack from the "it's everyone else's fault" culture is going to have a different effect on someone not from that culture. I can see it bothering him to the extent of him pulling it and taking some of the "blame" not being used to it. People from those "it's everyone else's fault" countries just blow it off as normal for that culture, stuff like that happens for example in the us all of the time.
I don't expect someone from those cultures to get it really.