We'll take two! But no, at this point, the sensible thing to do is to stop and quietly rethink life thorough. Yet, we just had to keep on going. If we thread further down the eBay listings, we'll be caught in an endless loop of phones, over-priced to ensure the Flappy Bird madness won't end anytime soon. Flappy iPhones. Send a warning to Selected user. The user has 0 warnings currently. Next warning will result in ban! Home News You are here. Reply Report.

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I suspect this is a hot item for 40 year old virgins who haven't missed a comic-con convention in the past 20 years Hey, iResent that, I'm not 40yrs old!! I would like to add, though, this is another legitimately positive affirmation for Android, since it's an "open-source" OS, I just downloaded the APK from Kick ss Torrents and installed on my Galaxy Note 2; no need to root, jailbreak or iEbay.

This whole thing just reminds me of what Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars would say: "That's what they're asking for it, that's not necessarily what they're selling for". Just how stupid can people be?

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It's a freaking game that isn't even anything special!!! I admit I installed the game that night before they took it away But how can this get so valuable when you can just extract the. APK file out of your original copy I "backed up" just in case Though never crossed my mind selling my phone for this ridiculous ammount of money And the app is not nearly as popular in my country Wait, soooo Dumb as I mean potential customers are buying these phones? I wonder what my phone is worth. If you have the superior android just install the APK which you can find online and it will be there forever.

I am going to be rich. I knew this day woud come. Haha, remember when Twinkies were gone? None of those prices are bids. They're mostly buy it now. Very few are auctions. Doesn't the Iphone have anything similar to APKs where you can just grab the file and download? And I still have it.

How do we, as a society, get to be so childish with such large sums of money? Want to comment? Please Log in or sign up. Flappy Bird was originally released on May 24, , [14] with support for the iPhone 5. The game was subsequently updated for iOS 7 in September I cannot take this anymore. Tuoi Tre News , an English-language newspaper in Vietnam, reported from a local technology expert that Flappy Bird ' s removal could have been due to a legal challenge from Nintendo over perceived visual similarities to Mario games.

In an interview with Forbes , Nguyen cited the game's addictive nature for its cancellation, stating: " Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed. But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it's best to take down Flappy Bird.

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It's gone forever. In a March interview with Rolling Stone , Nguyen refused to rule out re-releasing Flappy Bird , on condition that it would come with a warning to "Take a break". Shortly after the game's removal, security researchers warned that some versions of Flappy Bird and its imitators available on alternative Android app stores have been found to contain malware that can lead to unauthorised charges to a user's phone bills.

The number matching game Threes has been compared to Flappy Bird because of the similarities between how people react to them and by the chain of clones that they are both respectively part of. In February , the non-profit computer science education organization Code. An Easter egg in Android Lollipop version 5. Despite criticizing its playability and its "no skill" requirement, IGN noted that the gameplay made it "an addictive short-term distraction" for the casual skill and score-obsessed players.

Nolan Bushnell , the creator of the video game Pong , compared Flappy Bird to his own game by claiming that "simple games are more satisfying". When questioned at the time by Chocolate Lab Apps, a website for app developers, Nguyen claimed to have used no promotional methods in the marketing of Flappy Bird. He credited the sudden rise in the game's popularity in early to possibly "luck". The game was criticised by Kotaku for what it claimed was open use of Mario -style graphics, [54] referring to it as "ripped-off art".

It later published a correction , clarifying that the game's green pipe was "a new albeit unoriginal drawing". Cactus , from the gameplay by tapping on the screen to the main character design a small yellow bird with big red beak to the obstacles green cacti and pipes. Cactus and confirmed that the similarities between the two games are astonishing. The French developer of Piou Piou vs. Cactus , known as Kek, told Pocket Gamer that he, too, noticed that Flappy Bird is "very similar" to his earlier game, but when he contacted Nguyen about it, Nguyen claimed that he did not know anything.

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