Was Flappy Bird banned? Here is why the game is missing from Play Store

creator of Flappy Bird Dong Nguyen was 28 when he first created app in 2013. He wanted to make something simple yet challenging with game. He held his day job as a programmer in Hai, Vietnam, and lived with his parents. At 28, Nguyen spent a holiday weekend devising a game that would soon make him very rich and will become one of most downloed mobile games ever.

simplistic mobile game was reportedly downloed more than 50 million times in its lifetime and has a very strong fan base to this day. However, recently netizens on twitter started claiming that Flappy bird is unavailable on google play store. Many claimed that highly dictive game h been banned by Google. Re on to find out, “Was Flappy Bird banned?”

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Was Flappy Bird banned?

short answer is , Flappy Bird was t banned. However, app is still missing from Google’s play store. reason for this being that Flappy Bird was removed by its own creator Dong Nguyen, as he felt guilty of how dictive it h become. In fact, game was removed from google play store in 2014, merely a little over a year after it was launched.  In an exclusive interview given to Rolling Stone magazine, Dong Nguyen --- game’s famous creator revealed why he removed an app that was earning him $50,000 dollars a month is merely a year of it going live.

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Flappy Bird removed from Play Store and App Store

Why did Dong Nguyen remove Flappy bird?

While it might seem incomprehensible to many, as to why would someone take off such a successful game, Dong Nguyen did have strong reasons backing his decision. In his interview, Nguyen revealed that it took eight months for his game to receive attention on play store, which is always beaming with hundreds of new incoming apps every day. While game was released in May, it gained momentum in December. Many users at time took to Twitter to express how fun game was. Nguyen revealed that on play store many users left comments claiming that game was slowly consuming ir life.

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With meteoric rise in Flappy bird downlos, Nguyen also became quite popular throughout world and especially in Vietnam. In interview, he revealed that word started spreing about how much money he was making and his face started appearing in local newspapers. Nguyen claims that developed anxiety as he felt suffocated by constant attention and sudden fame he h gared.

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Locally, many parents started chastising him for creating a new diction for ir children. As pressure kept on mounting he finally decided to pull plug on game and removed it from play store and app store. He still has two more games Super Ball Juggling and Shuriken Block which can be downloed by users.

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