Dong Nguyen, the creator behind the surprisingly successful mobile game Flappy Bird has officially taken the game down and it is no longer available for download. Nguyen claims that the success of Flappy Bird has "ruined" his once "simple life".

In a series of Tweets, Nguyen says "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.", followed by "I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.".

Flappy Bird has been pulled out of the Apple store and Google Play, however if you already downloaded the game, you can still play it.

According to IGN, Nguyen receives around $50,000 a day in ad revenue. Nguyen claims he will keep developing games despite how horrible he has it after the success of Flappy Bird.

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In the meantime, you can all play Flappy Doge.

http://www.dogetek.co/game/

 

God I hate myself for linking to anything "Doge".

Here's another clone, Flappy Ninja. Part of #FlappyJam http://www.flappyjam.com/

It's really too bad. I didn't play the game, but the evil shit people were saying to him is ridiculous. Makes me ashamed to be a gamer.

Yeah I saw those tweets earlier today. Tons of death threats from kiddies.

I seriously don't understand why people have to be that way? I'm all for trolling a corporation, but an individual who puts out a FREE game and you bash the shit out of him? That's bullshit.

Be careful with some of the clones that are out there... they are riddled with malware.

I doubt the ones on FloppyJam would have any. It's just developers getting together to make one type of game within a set time limit.

It's a ridiculous world we live when a guy cant put up a free game and people just enjoy it. There are plenty more shit games out there that don't get their creators death threats.

What's also really silly to me is the people that are trying to sell their iPhones on ebay with the game installed for $1000+. I mean, yeah it's a flash in the pan game that is no more, but it's damn sure not worth $1000....but then again, somebody help me put my iPhone up on ebay and get me paid!

$50,000 a day? Fuck it, you can call me whatever the hell you want.