Developer of Flappy Bird Announces Its Termination On Twitter: "I cannot take this anymore"

[Irrelephant]

Dong Nguyen, indie game developer, announces that Flappy Bird will be taken down by tomorrow.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dongatory/status/432227971173068800

i.imgur.com/CPL5hFG.jpg

 

poor guy, I guess the money wasn't worth it all

 

Further explanation from his previous tweets

"Press people are overrating the success of my games. It is something I never want. Please give me peace.

12:36 PM - 4 Feb 2014"

 

"I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.

5:15 AM - 8 Feb 2014"

[kimchi]

Wait what happened?

[Athena]

I'm keeping it lol

[JWK]

This game was a ripoff of Piou Piou anyways. 

[DHenchanted]

can't take what?

[Nev Schulman]

I read this on twitter and I though it was a joke.

 

But it's real?

[المروة]

What can't he take? If it pays then it stays. It's a pretty dumb thing to do if gets you money but idk maybe he's getting death threats or stuff ~~ 

[DeletedAccount01]

Idgi, what happened?

[Athena]

What can't he take? If it pays then it stays. It's a pretty dumb thing to do if gets you money but idk maybe he's getting death threats or stuff ~~

I wouldn't be surprised if he was getting death threats.

[Gen_ki]

Too much rage quitting.

[SLEEP TALK]

Good riddance, some kids take that game way too seriously. 

[ANTI]

what happened

[â™ ace]

im flapping right now

[Edna Mode]

Death threats on the internet tho? *yawn*

 

He's making 50k$ a week, give it to me i'll take care of it. 

[MrFujiKicker]

You guys don't understand that he just simply wanted to make a game with an average time of 5~10 minutes of gameplay. Instead, his game just suddenly rose to the top, getting unwanted attention by players, media, and gaming critics. The undeserved threats and hatred from a simple game he created. He's frustrated and doesn't want to handle the pressure.

 

Here's a simple analogy posted by a redditor:

It's like if your hobby is painting after work, so you make a painting and sell copies of it to friends, but suddenly everyone wants it and professional critics the world round are critiquing it and the media is knocking on your door.

And what's crazy is your painting is by no means a masterpiece -- you're not some hidden talent that has just been discovered. In fact, your painting kinda sucks, and not only that but it's already been done a thousand times. But for some reason, your crappy painting is the one that everyone is talking about. It's like you're taking crazy pills.

[Saint Rose]

I feel for him

[mgl]

People can be really stupid and overreact so much....

[Irrelephant]

Death threats on the internet tho? *yawn*

 

He's making 50k$ a week, give it to me i'll take care of it.

 

Is this an assumption made from people commenting? His twitter doesn't address death threats. More along the lines of success over something that he expected to be a much less significant part of his life. This type of attention isn't for everyone, so what's there to criticize

[Athena]

Someone just told me that a guy killed his brother because he got a higher score than him on the game.

[abra]

What is flappy bird? I've heard of it but never seen it or tried it.

 

Edit: oh it's like that helicopter game

[Vaelin]

LISTEN CAREFULLY MISTER DONG NGUYEN,

 

JUST SAY THAT IT WAS ALL MY IDEA...ALRIGHT?

 

IT WAS ALL MY IDEA, SEND THE INVESTORS TO ME, I WILL HANDLE IT.

[wujuwuju]

Someone just told me that a guy killed his brother because he got a higher score than him on the game.

 

Now that's truly disturbing. 

[Property of Goddess Irene]

Everyone is so anal these days. It takes the littlest of things to set off people's fury.

[eescorpius]

ppl r just gonna make sth similar tho

[Minju]

People take things way too seriously...