Flappy Bird is an indie game for smartphones which gained so
much popularity in a very small amount of time. It was put on the aap store in
the mid of 2013 and in January 2014 it was earning around 50,000$ every day. In
the first few months it was not so popular but suddenly its popularity
increased dramatically. But eventually in February the creator of the game Dong
Nguyen tweeted that he is deleting the game from store. At first people thought
it might be a marketing stunt but he really did deleted the game after his
announcement and left many wondering why would he would he do that while he was
earning quick heavy amount from his app using ads and how it gained so much popularity suddenly
.
Well here is the story behind that. Before a few months of
taking the app down from app store the game had very little download rate and popularity
but eventually its download rate sky rocketed and every one was playing and
talking about the games difficulty level. People with knowledge about the app
market claim that he used malpractices to make the game appear in the spotlight
and top apps list of app store. By posting thousand of fake reviews about the
game and the game started to show up in the Apple Store top apps.
Now, why he took the game down from the app store and Google play. Well we all saw that the game had copied graphics from Nintendo's Mario game. Which made a case of copyright infringement on him. He then released a new updated version with the graphics replaced but Nintendo issued a notice to him for deleting the game and he had to do that. And the awesome game got deleted from the smartphone stores
