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Flappy Bird returns but now with microtransactions (youtu.be)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And the trademarks were sleazily grabbed from the original creator :/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It isn't the original creator? I saw some advertising elsewhere that heavily implied that it was the same guy.

If it's just some company trying to leech of the success from over a decade ago, including microtransactions, that's beyond pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Unfortunately multiple sources seem to agree Dong Nguyen has no involvement, which is consistent with the way he originally shut down Flappy Bird due to people spending too much time on it :(

"The Flappy Bird Foundation said it has acquired the official Flappy Bird trademark from Gametech Holdings LLC, a U.S. company that appears to have wrestled the trademark from Nguyen, as well as the rights for the original game and character from Piou Piou vs. Cactus, the mobile game that supposedly originally inspired the Flappy Bird character."

https://www.ign.com/articles/10-years-after-it-was-pulled-offline-viral-mobile-game-flappy-bird-is-coming-back

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Gametech had the Piou Piou rights? Sounds dubious...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

His name was dong?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

His friends called him Magnum.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can always download original apk file, without mtx and bloat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Also without banner ads? If I recalled correctly the original game has ads which Nguyen had said generated some 10K USD per week for him.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You either die as a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Or in this case die a hero and then someone pays to desecrate your corpse and reanimate you

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

Awesome. The lack of cosmetics for real money was the only thing holding this game back…

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

More like "Crappy Bird" right?

[–] Semjaza 2 points 8 months ago

Please be performance art...