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Flappy Bird Creator Deletes Game From App Stores Despite It Making $50,000 Daily In Revenue

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If you didn’t think he’d actually do it, you were wrong. Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen followed through with his promise to remove the game from app stores, and as his 22 hour deadline passed, the game was indeed taken down from Apple’s  iOS store and the Android/Google Play marketplace.

Nguyen claimed that Flappy Bird had “ruined his simple life” by attracting too much attention from a critical games press or unpleasant players. The app was said to be bringing in $50,000 a day in revenue, making Nguyen’s promise to remove it hard to believe, but he has.

Some have praised Nguyen for his zen-like attitude toward abandoning a golden goose for the sake of his sanity, but he has likely already raked in millions from the game, and continues to make money from both it and his other popular games which he has not taken down. In other words, it’s not like he gave up his fortune or even his income stream by removing the singular game.

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