• @SquigglyEmpire
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    545 months ago

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

    • @PunchingWood
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • @SquigglyEmpire
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        125 months ago

        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

    • TwinTusks
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      25 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.

  • Aielman15
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    335 months ago

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

    • @TORFdot0
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      145 months ago

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

  • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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    275 months ago

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