According to an exchange on Twitter, creator Dong Nguyen was asked whether he planned to bring Flappy Bird back to the "App Store." His response: "Yes, but not soon."
Nguyen took Flappy Bird down in February, after admitting that it was raking in some $50,000 a day from ads.
In an exclusive interview with Forbes, Nguyen said he removed the game initially because it was an “addictive product” also noting that “my life has not been as comfortable as I was before.”
“Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few minutes when you are relaxed,” Dong Nguyen told Forbes. “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. It’s gone forever.”
As you can see, Nguyen doesn’t give a timeline but does say it won’t be “soon,” which suggests possibly there’s some additional development going into the game, or at least some kind of preparatory action so that Nguyen can deal with the life upheaval that’s bound to follow. Nguyen left the door open for a Flappy Bird return in his extended Rolling Stone profile, but this confirms the bird won’t stay grounded forever.
I’ve already got the game on my phone, and I didn’t even try to sell it on eBay for tens of thousands of dollars, so I’m not sweating it, but this is good (bad?) news for people who haven’t yet tasted sweet pixelated feather.
Why flappy bird was removed?
See here (http://heightsofawesomeness.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-mobile-with-flappy-bird-is-price.html)
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