In a tweet earlier in the day on Saturday, Dong Nguyen–developer of the wildly popular iOS and Android game, Flappy Bird–apologized to fans while simultaneously promising to take his game down, assumedly from the various app stores it’s been selling like crazy on.
Like, $50,000 per day crazy.
His tweet hints at the insanity of success, and we can only assume that a shy, retiring game developer might have a hard time with the kind of success Flappy Bird has seen.
I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.
— Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 8, 2014
He asserts that there are no legal or copyright issues in another couple of tweets, but does say that he feels that the game is being “overused.”
It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.
— Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 8, 2014
Neither is Nguyen selling the game, he tweeted response to many offers to purchase the property. Also, he still makes games, so stay tuned for more, perhaps.
I also don't sell 'Flappy Bird', please don't ask.
— Dong Nguyen (@dongatory) February 8, 2014
It could be that the game has come under intense scrutiny after it exploded onto the mobile gaming scene, with outlets like Kotaku pointing out the obvious parallels in game artwork to Super Mario Bros., a hugely popular Nintendo franchise.
Whatever the reason, if Nguyen pulled in $50,000 over the last week alone, he’s more set than most of us to continue living and not working on anything other than games he wants to make.
Source: Twitter
