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12 hey what's going on everybody uses Dom
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and it let's go ahead and jump right in this year we wanted to talk about
and this is gonna sound totally silly but we wanted to talk about flappy bird
because
I'm it's sad a new are you know a fair
fairly to it's not starting some he says
starting okay sorry it's occurring it's a it's a fairly popular game
right and it was just removed from the App Store and the Google Play Store
today
now the developer iranians name is ***
when I think it's how you pronounce it I apologize if that's not but
I yesterday he went on to where he is like okay I'm
I am removing floppy bird from the App Store in the Play Store in
stuff like that so it hey I
it's kind of crazy okay said check this out reportedly
flapping bird was making around fifty thousand dollars a day
from advertisement it's a free game and
to quite a bit of money yep I mean dat is a substantial amount of cash right
so making about 50 fifty grand
a day and it just he just decided to you
you know give that up so obviously on
I'm guessing missus maybe that's a bad for me assuming the obviously money's
not like anything to him like
it's not money is in everything I guess is the best way I can put it so
he got rid of flabby bird and its Campoli gone now you know if you have it
on your device obviously you can still utilize it and play it by
if you don't then you're not going to be able to download it through
official way you know sorry I don't know if they are you there might be other
ways to do that I'm not gonna recommend that you do anything but
II it's just kinda weird like the whole thing so
a lot of people there there are some angles to this on some people are saying
well maybe he's being sued by Nintendo
because of course as you might have noticed flappy bird looks very very
similar to you
a Nintendo game right knee on there's the classic green pipes
that we all grew up looking at playing I know meantime let early date yet
an you know on on Mario
so that's that there's that right and and that little yellow bird is also or
Redbird a bluebird you know now changes colors now its version before
all it always did on the Android version I believe but on
the bird just the the shape in the design of the bird is also
on it's also influenced by
Mario character right so there's
there's kinda different sites this now he actually went to Twitter
right and on what'd he say
some other his stead sigh about him ruin his simple life
your okay here you go in this is from February 8th right
he said his three I can call floppy bird is
a success and I'm arena serve it verbatim I can cough lappy bird is a
successive mind but
also ruins my simple life so I hate it now
had to that same put on February a in like I said
on just yesterday I
on actually sorry yesterday was favorite and yeah
help he also said that it wasn't due to any legal issues
yet Yai may be made that very clear that it was in a legal issue but
I mean you know would you be like happy to go out there and say you're being
sued by Nintendo
or you know you know what do you think you that a
mean in-and-out thats that's kinda thing they're so
but see there's on as somebody post the link
actually that I just saw a says definitive proof that flappy bird
is stolen so there's another game
apparently called Smart cough liar
and this was that who posted this actually Shane
I Shane yet that went Peco n I think
he be just persist this link right so
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you know all those kinda thing so and this is kind of an interesting angle as
well that there's definitive proof that it's
a stolen game I mean
I definitely would assume that the graphics were
you know heavily influenced by Nintendo game yes
on Mario specifically but
yeah I LK years and he is another good point on
Hamed and *** so he probably got around to main dollars in the two months
I would assume
I work I think what it said was that the allegedly that the 50k day was
after the App Store cut and stuff I think
right I think that was his share
have it I don't know it live online I'll from what I was reading it was
it was he was making fifty thousand yeah a day exactly yes so
on so immediately at like is it like we said he didn't say that
yeah it was reported me and this is probably still base toppers statistics
from
other you know applications that have the same user base in in
add you know it in app ads I slept like that
because this is this is all the I'm in the game is free so he was making this
kind of money
50 granted day on just
I ads or day ads are in the Google Play App
I am that that's pretty crazy I mean
thats that you really have to have some purse a some persuasion going on
in you know the whole thing to just give that a
right in less of course yeah like I said money's not everything to everybody and
and maybe he just doesn't care about that
and all the their countless emails from knowing the people he must
have received and all that the Tweety
got you know that could have made him crazy to an end
here's another crazy into just a another thing this could be at
total PR stunt in some way yahoo.com
that we were saying yeah a lot of people are saying it's just marketing cuz he's
still he got all the people that hadn't download it and that was the we're
hearing about it was going to be gone
in 22 hours that God there was a breath
downloads I'm sure not to mention he's still making revenue of them
anything that's on the hill so it means there's that
there are ads if in what he closes
you know his at account which I I'd I don't think you would then
you still gonna continue propping offer that by an another thing is too that I
noticed is he's gone
he's his followers on Twitter have risen a substantial amount
from yesterday I can't remember the exact number minute-forty K
it was not a hundred and ten thousand I can tell you that for sure and that's
where there are a hundred ten thousand followers on Twitter
and that was just because he announced his and not a lot of people probably
knew who he was
you know not not as many as that have the
application installed knew who the developer actually was just this one guy
and yet so
her know its it's just it's pretty confusing me I
I hope I really hope that sometime in the near future at least
he'll go on record you know with some on
official publication or something or even make a video and say hey you know
this is why
this is why explain it of course he doesn't oh that too i sat on the
scenarios
2s but are now I think that
it would be nice to hear his side yeah an
because right now all we know is that he doesn't like the game anymore
his simple letters ran he's trying to get back to that
and was a this Justin T in this is Ray at was there 3,000 to iron 10,000 yes
so my kitchen big jump big jump there
think you just think you for pointing that out I think it was within like the
first couple hours arose
40k from wanna I think I was reading
but yeah I mean that's that's insane on
and he stars other games out there which are becoming more popular now
yet just because this on as such a simple game 2
on I just kinda line 0 has anybody out there play the game
yeah at me I would I would love to know people's highly or you can tweet it to
us
if you want we tweet us a picture of your high score
i'd links are down below the like button there
you can find our our Twitter has tweet us your high score 2 I'm interested to
see how much
how much time people have different me because I know that I've
spent a good amount of time over the last end and the funny thing is I just
downloaded this game for the first time like four days ago or something like
that
right so and I spent a good amount of time into an whenever maybe I suck but
I've only managed to get up to 38
which is I mean for me that feels like a huge accomplishment
but a yeah Turner its
its it's crazy I
and a thing is a lot of people are saying wake yeah he might not want the
fame
by me iight
it's got to be more than that you know what we were even trying to do some like
investigative reporting here and look into like the
I'm cuz I from what I he's okay he's Vietnamese right
not from what we know yeah from what we know on Twitter here
and we're looking into like the unease culture maybe there's some like cultural
thing that's
not you know working out in in his favor and stuff and he's trying to be you
loyal to his culture something like that on up and so
we're China think I do like some investigative reporting and like it on
new style on it and
and I we can really find anything specific
you know you can find anything specific but
I'm just totally mind-blowing by this yeah and I'm
I'm interested did did it to hear our to read what
everybody else thinks about this whole
flappy birds in area yeah and I doubt that he would come out and say that it
wasn't anything legal if it
was something we take why would he lie about that you know
I mean is no reason to lie yeah really at the only thing I could think others
if
like he doesn't he if it so if it's kept hush-hush and
legal thing maybe he doesn't wanna bring
shame to himself by telling everybody else he
here's the only thing I can think of this is very interesting to write on the
same day yesterday
when he announced he was taking it down he also said that he's not willing to
sell floppy bird
so at least don't ask but use it is still going to develop other games and
maintain your games D has an apt or so
let's think about this for a second you you don't care about died taking out the
App Store eventually the revenue from that will fall
whatever maybe that's no big deal to him maybe doesn't care about money
that's cool I'm I can totally respect that maybe he doesn't want to deal with
all the emails all the support involved with a popular app like this I mean that
one guy
so think about how much work that is I can respect that as well
here's the thing that's how weirdo and and I in in this is just my
opinion he doesn't want to sell flapping bird right so think about
if you making 50k day right now think about like what the
the grand total is for the value of his business
right any peace L sold me
there'd probably times a major games to use I would buy that
from in three million dollars probably right
early I mean I would assume if the thing about long-term revenue expansion
think about like merchandise in lower and make your gonna make your money back
in the first couple months yet
so still with that with a concern that why wouldn't he wanna sell it
again maybe money doesn't matter is my cell but if you really want to just get
out of his life and doesn't want to deal with it all
then so it would be a great option because
on he wouldn't have to deal with the support they're still gonna be million
you to a China
people in fibers user base
for a long long time I mean people are people Rd at the game
prime knowing the people at the game on now I'm sure there's a lot of people on
our exact numbers but
on itself I i'm
it would seem like it would be easier to just give it off to you like a major
game studio right that yes this kinda thing on a regular basis I
like contender I yeah right
somebody we thing what if this was like Nintendo's genius plan
I marking plannin in in I think it was Jeff from i download block user like
in an alternate universe that Nintendo release flappy bird
as a marketing hype to increase 3ds sales or something like that
add in that was something to the to do that so
yet I I don't know then there's
there's a lot of different II
a lot different opinions in here as well so
well see definitely a PR stunt has to be
I am and see what else
some other people are saying 243 outlet cover no way
yep that's that is wrong I
but I don't know it you know it's really it's really hard to you
comprehend why he woulda just want to get rid
now but I guess everybody has an opinion hope okay wait what is this
I'm somebody flying ping when 88 said
10 million plus before it was taken down from
Android I'm guessing that downloads
I A energy also by the way if you look in the Google Play Store right now just
looking earlier
there are ready like three flat Bieber just plain repost
is actually one that's kinda cool though someone I which I find out who was
someone just said flatly be
there's one called floppy bird flock no check this out
I doesn't really is but the trunk of lobby bird and
floppy bird actually I is is a little more difficult so
when you're flying to the pipes they'd just completely rip-off Mario right
there's all like flower thing that come out in the pipe in China each unit
bullets they are light and the hop over
checking out floppy burning I'm not trying to promote like some ripoff but
it seemed pretty courts
he's like a dollar sum like that so and
yet I doubt it's just really hard to
to to grasp why you would want to just on
me he was number it was number one on App Store yeah
number one in the free app cake yeah and to just
take it down just like that you know
I N it blows my mind likewise a one-room would want to do that
her hacer had Mike Detroit Borg says
lawsuits do to you unintentional device destruction
yet I'm sure many you've seen those videos on YouTube how to win flapping
bird and then they're like
like dude do do and then they dine like
on it brother how are they smash it with a hammer instantly
and there's I think there's I'm
a channel look it up it's called send your pac-man I believe is a challenge
and he did a video like that it's pretty you funny I
totally not safe for work to keep that I it's a pretty funny video
cell yeah I if you down 105 E byrd and you would like to continue playing patty
bird I would go ahead
and leave it on your phone back it up on your computer
you now don't tallied it because you won't be able to download again
of course if you haven't on sleep you haven't checked them out
he does have a couple of other games and they are pretty cool too there's
their actually really hard there's one called juggling and it's super
ridiculously hard so
you have these guys in in juggling arms can explain this year
and they're basically kicking a soccer ball in the air rights you have one guy
that kicking a soccer ball
and you have to tap on that guy to keep in kicking the soccer ball up
and then just right in the middle and after some
strange reason the other guy starts kicking a soccer ball and he got a tap
on both the net different like
speeds its it's really art seriously I i've been
I've been playing Alan lately to sell big fan of this developer he makes
simple
8-bit games for Iowa Sen Android in ok we don't want to
from what I heard I am
iron pants okay iron pants
says some he says that that makes I
nixon rage so I
any hold on when I came back to you as I fight the bird apparently it's still
available on Windows Phone
and this could change in the near future but
I read an article from some when
source or something like that I can remember the name
I tweeted earlier so I tweeted a link to the ER
to the Windows Phone store and its actually available on Windows Phone
still here it is
Windows Phone yeah I ok it's still available on Windows Phone
serve you have Windows Phone any wide our fight the bird
you can still do so right now at this moment I'm I assume you're going to
change in the future
if he deleted II you know from
at and a nap and it could be this could be just complete rip off Port somebody
made or something like that
who knows either way rest in peace flappy bird
it was nice it was nice now is nice to happen with yeah
the exit but seriously that's the one thing that's you
like boggles my mind is that it's such a simple
game simple graphics simple gameplay
simple scoring you know one tap
and a bird that you you downpour
sorry that's that's what it actually makes a it's pretty crazy out so
and go ahead and I check us out on iTunes we're going to get outta here
that's why I keep this simple
and short and leave you guys with some
some stuff to think about why why do you think that
sloppy with a developer remove flat Bieber what do you really think was the
problem so
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