Flappy birds...?
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Quhet

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2,840 posts

172 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Anyone else hideously addicted?

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I'm only on level 16...

stuartmmcfc

8,775 posts

218 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Wasted several hours on this stupid game that I'll never get back frown

ben5732

763 posts

182 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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26...

Amirhussain

11,603 posts

189 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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It's beginning to piss me off!

peter hh

269 posts

240 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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No I deleted it after an hour, people are only playing it because it's the latest fad.

Mastodon2

14,269 posts

191 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Without a doubt one of the sttest fad games of recent years.

MattyB_

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283 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Mastodon2 said:
Without a doubt one of the sttest fad games of recent years.
That's apparently making the creator $50k a day in advertising revenue!

Played it for 10mins and wondered what the fuss was!

Hawkers

79 posts

151 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Mastodon2

14,269 posts

191 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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MattyB_ said:
That's apparently making the creator $50k a day in advertising revenue!

Played it for 10mins and wondered what the fuss was!
There is no doubting, for the short time these games are doing well, they make some serious money! The enduring one is Candy Crush, makes some serious moolah, day in, day out. I remember some guys on Dragon's Den who were going to make a mobile game and have it become the next big thing and make everyone a ton of money, when it should have been pretty obvious that you can't engineer yourself into winning at this competition of having the next fad game.

Xaero

4,063 posts

241 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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Mastodon2 said:
There is no doubting, for the short time these games are doing well, they make some serious money! The enduring one is Candy Crush, makes some serious moolah, day in, day out. I remember some guys on Dragon's Den who were going to make a mobile game and have it become the next big thing and make everyone a ton of money, when it should have been pretty obvious that you can't engineer yourself into winning at this competition of having the next fad game.
I read a report online (not sure where) which reported their earnings in the last quarter of 2013 was around $1million a day. Crazy money!

MysteryPoster

823 posts

168 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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Played it for about an hour like others and managed a grand total of...4! Shortly deleted after that.

randlemarcus

13,646 posts

257 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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He's pulling the game tomorrow. Not comfortable with the interest in him, rather than just the game, bless.

randlemarcus

13,646 posts

257 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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dibbers006 said:
Source?

Bit late now isn't it! He may as well cash in on his cow.
His Twitter feed, via one of the tech aggregator sites. Personally, would flog it for squizzillions, and go play on the beach, but hey.

Johna

2,328 posts

196 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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randlemarcus said:
He's pulling the game tomorrow. Not comfortable with the interest in him, rather than just the game, bless.
If that's true then he's a nob. Just like the Harlem Shake guys who copyrighted there song as soon as it got popular.

Ferson

2,117 posts

150 months

Sunday 9th February 2014
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Here's a source: http://kotaku.com/i-am-sorry-flappy-bird-users-22-...

People seem to feel he's pulling it as a result of the artwork being heavily derived from the Mario games. I suppose if Nintendo has a credible case then they'd follow it up; if he's making $50k a day through that game I imagine it's too big to ignore.

Everyone I know is addicted to it as well. I'm ashamed to say that, for all my time spent playing games, I couldn't get above 4 playing on a friend's phone. Even then it was a hard fought score, and I'd likely have given up had I been playing it on my own phone.

ArsE92

21,309 posts

213 months

Sunday 9th February 2014
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Hawkers said:
laugh Very good

forest172

755 posts

232 months

Sunday 9th February 2014
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My best score so far

BrabusMog

21,570 posts

212 months

Sunday 9th February 2014
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It's just a tarted up version of that helicopter excel spreadsheet game. And I can't get past 5!!!

callmedave

2,686 posts

171 months

Monday 10th February 2014
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Have u seen the phones selling on eBay with flappy birds installed. A 4s selling for £500+!!

GG89

3,692 posts

212 months

Monday 10th February 2014
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callmedave said:
Have u seen the phones selling on eBay with flappy birds installed. A 4s selling for £500+!!
Is it not downloadable anymore? Might stick mine on for £300 hehe