Others have lambasted Nguyen for whining about earning a reported $50,000 a day from the game. “I cannot take this anymore.” Some have seen in this a sort of victory for honest game design. “I am sorry ‘Flappy Bird’ users, 22 hours from now, I will take ‘Flappy Bird’ down,” he tweeted.
The minimalist pipe-avoidance sim that scorched to the top of the iPhone free game rankings earlier this year has been removed by its creator, Dong Nguyen.