Despite the controversies, the app is reported to earn around $50,000 per day from ad revenues (a 5-digit salary which could continue to rise if the app will not be pulled down from stores soon). This means that due to us Flappy Bird addicts, the app has become a gold mine for Nguyen, perhaps unintentionally.
So why take down Flappy Bird? Quoting Nguyen, “Press people are overrating the success of my games. It is something I never want”. I guess he is the type of person who is not comfortable being in the limelight -- or maybe it's because of the pressure from this unexpected publicity or even criticism from users across the world.
If Flappy Bird will indeed be taken down soon, it only means that the hit game will have little chance of being available on the Windows Phone and Blackberry operating systems. On the other hand, this will not affect iOS and Android users who already have Flappy Bird installed on their devices. Note, however, that once Flappy Bird is gone from the app stores, there will be no more updates coming from the game developer and, of course, it also prevents new installs of the game.
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