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A comment on Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I can't take this anymore".

Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by UnfalseDesign on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:40PM (#7202283)
I understand that he is probably wanting to get away from all the press coverage but I'm pretty sure this is not the right way to go about it. This might actually have the opposite effect. I had no intention of downloading it but knowing it is about to be removed, I'm going to download it.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by amark on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:07PM (#7202432)
He's really a PR genius. When he restores Flappy Bird to the app store next week, after a week of the media writing about how it was taken down abruptly, It'll blow up even more.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by pbreit on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:17PM (#7202487)
I suspect he'll lose out to duplicates.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by adventured on Saturday February 08, 2014 @04:16PM (#7202768)
When - if - he removes it from the app store, Clumsy Bird [insert clone here] will take over his sales momentum, and Flappy Bird will never be heard from again.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by jerogarcia on Saturday February 08, 2014 @04:57PM (#7202949)
indeed , clumsy birds is coming close.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by Aqueous on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:12PM (#7202467)
Possibly...and it's an excellent opportunity to raise the price.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by pgrote on Saturday February 08, 2014 @02:43PM (#7202302)
Me, too. I just downloaded. I hadn't played it until the HTML5 clone showed up here.
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by akmx9 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:05PM (#7202417)
Maybe that's what he wants to happen?
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by laurent123456 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:27PM (#7202530)
Never attribute to malice...
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Re:Flappy Bird creator, Dong Nguyen, taking down game; "I ca... by nirbhay on Saturday February 08, 2014 @03:11PM (#7202461)
yea that may be the case too, although I would like to think otherwise :]
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