Maybe it's him selling the phones on ebay?He didn't take it down because of the death threats and harassment, those started AFTER he said he was going to take it down.
Apparently he said he was taking it down because he felt that the game was an 'addictive product', and continuing to sell it didn't seem morally sound. He said that he intended it as a timewaster during little minute-long breaks in the day, but he heard stories that made him think it was becoming an unhealthy fixation for too many people.
Considering he got crackhead-style death threats after announcing he was going to take it down, and people were bidding thousands of dollars for phones preloaded with it on ebay, it looks like he wasn't wrong.
Normally I'd say the guy was full of shit, but honestly why else would he take down a game at the height of its popularity, when it was apparently making him tens of thousands every single day?
Time to buy old Samsung phones in bulk, preload them with pirated Flappy Crack and hit it big on ebay.View attachment 3222
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Well of course you can. Actually I fully expect most of the phones go to people who believe that they won't be able to play it after it is removed from the appstore even if they have bought it on an earlier date.Wait wait, why would you buy a phone with the game preloaded? Can't you just not remove it from inventory or something?
You're talking about people who think Flappy Bird is entertaining.Wait wait, why would you buy a phone with the game preloaded? Can't you just not remove it from inventory or something?
To be fair, the Devil would quit running Hell if EA offered him a job.
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I wanted to love Fallout: New Vegas. I loved the original Fallout, and Fallout 3. I didn't much like Fallout 2
Finally I get to the top floor. I'm expecting something cool, and I find it – my first contact with the Brotherhood of Steel! Two fallen soldiers' corpses are on the floor. So powerful! Their armor is so shiny! Except, well, I can't wear their armor yet (no training), the tape that's on their body means nothing to me, and there's (sing it with me) no forward pointer to the mission where you actually need to find these guys. Again, you're punished for exploring on your own.
A bad "powder-ganger" dude comes into the bar of the first town and threatens the nice townsfolk, so I step outside and put a bullet in his skull. No! Bad dog! The townfolk instantly vilify me for my heinous crime of defending them!
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It's also not fun doing quests for people of dubious morality. Sure, this may be more like real life, but it isn't "fun." I did several missions for a fascist government agent before she revealed herself by asking me to do something horrible. I'm like, uh, no thanks, and THANK YOU game designers for making me spend all that time on a person who sucked.
The game also has a very unfortunate misfeature where it tracks your reputation with every group, including the ones you hate.
It's also not fun doing quests for people of dubious morality. Sure, this may be more like real life, but it isn't "fun." I did several missions for a fascist government agent before she revealed herself by asking me to do something horrible. I'm like, uh, no thanks, and THANK YOU game designers for making me spend all that time on a person who sucked.
I could team up with the guy who shot me in the head, or I could team up with a very fascist government that's at least trying to defend people, or I could kill the TV and decide I'm the new pope.
I go back to the giant TV. "Have you wiped out the Brotherhood of Steel yet?" I'm like, no, but DID YOU NOTICE that I JUST ELIMINATED THE ENTIRE EVIL ARMY AND ITS LEADER?