And the trademarks were sleazily grabbed from the original creator :/
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
63 points (87.1% liked)
Games
32458 readers
1188 users here now
Welcome to the largest gaming community on Lemmy! Discussion for all kinds of games. Video games, tabletop games, card games etc.
Weekly Threads:
Rules:
-
Submissions have to be related to games
-
No bigotry or harassment, be civil
-
No excessive self-promotion
-
Stay on-topic; no memes, funny videos, giveaways, reposts, or low-effort posts
-
Mark Spoilers and NSFW
-
No linking to piracy
More information about the community rules can be found here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
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.
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."
Gametech had the Piou Piou rights? Sounds dubious...
His name was dong?
His friends called him Magnum.
You can always download original apk file, without mtx and bloat.
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.
You either die as a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.
Or in this case die a hero and then someone pays to desecrate your corpse and reanimate you
Awesome. The lack of cosmetics for real money was the only thing holding this game back…
More like "Crappy Bird" right?