He went on to say that Flappy Bird 2 would have many changes, including a multi-player option.
However it seems that he doesn’t want people to play the game too often. He said that people should spend time doing something that was more productive.
When he was asked why he had taken Flappy Bird down, he said that the game was supposed to be just something that you played a few minutes to relax and pass a bit of time. He said that the game had become addictive to some people and that was a problem. To solve the problem he took the game away.
While he still makes money from the game, it is now a lot less than the $50,000 a day in ad revenue that he was getting at the height of the games success. He said that he was working on more games.
Flappy Bird was released by Gears Studio in Vietnam in 2013 in May and by November the game has ranked 1,368 in the US game charts. Just one month later it was in the top 250 free apps in the US and by January it was ranked as the 8th more downloaded game in the US.
Gamers were shocked in February when he said that he would be taking Flappy Bird down after saying that he couldn’t take it anymore. He denied that Nintendo had anything to do with him taking the game down, as it resembled Super Mario Bros.
Flappy Bird was downloaded 2 to 3 million times per day on Google Play and Apple iOS. Recently Nguyen said that his rapid rise to fame put him under a great deal of pressure.
