You guys may have heard of this game. And you may know it's really frustrating. Instead of getting together as a comunity to rage about it, why don't we share our highest scores?
The only rule is that you have to post a picture of your high score so I know it's legit.
So here's mine:
(You're supposed to be focusing on the best score)
(Also that high score is a platinum medal)
Uh, I wonder why would he do that? Is it because everyone is calling flappy bird a copy?
(It's funny, I just learned about this game today, and now apparently it's going down)
Automatik wrote:Uh, I wonder why would he do that? Is it because everyone is calling flappy bird a copy?
Well, these kind of games have been made repeatedly. But a small group of people wouldn't really mind it, since it's already pretty normal for it to happen. But Flappy Bird, for reasons that I still don't understand, exploded in popularity throughout the internet. And since it's popular, there's a lot of people playing it or had played it. And since there's a lot of people, there is bound to be trolls and haters. Those trolls and haters probably started saying bad things about the game, sending a bunch of hate mail and death treads (because people just doesn't have anything more interesting to do) and bothering the creator until he couldn't take it anymore. So then he decided to take the game down.
Automatik wrote:Uh, I wonder why would he do that? Is it because everyone is calling flappy bird a copy?
(It's funny, I just learned about this game today, and now apparently it's going down)
I'm guessing it's a mix of attention and introversion. Lots of pressure, both positive and negative, can be tiring.
I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.
Basically he made loads of money, got media attention and became well known.
The downside is that suddenly getting a lot of money brings more problems than it solves, more media attention means more (usually unwarranted) harsh criticism of someone not only as a developer but also as a person, and being well known just makes people hate you for being well known, people just start hanging on every word you say. Seriously, look at how many sites posted about his TWEETS. That puts on a lot of pressure.
Can't blame him.
Also:
[22:25:12] Maurice Guégan: yeah I saw
[22:25:14] Maurice Guégan: pretty sad
[22:25:33] Maurice Guégan: another victim of the shittiest userbase there is.
Hans1998 wrote:Now i want to ask, are there persons who "hates" Maurice for making Mari0, or Not Tetris, or Not Pac-man?
About the Flappy Bird game: I never heard of it, i never played it, but i just have watched a video. No, i don't want to play it.
We never really got any hatemail and the worst I've found so far is how the games are either "simple romhacks" (which is completely wrong) or just "reused concepts" (which is true, but not really worth mentioning).
Wow. I play the game on my friend's iPod in homeroom but I never thought much of it and didn't bother downloading it. She told me that the developer once said that he wouldn't let people pay to remove ads because he couldn't imagine people paying to play it. If that's true then I have a decent amount of respect for the guy, it sucks to see that this kind of overwhelming problem happened because of a simple iPod app. I didn't realize it was this popular either.
...Will the people that already have it on their iPods just not have it? Some tech savvies may be able to save a backup onto their computer, but I'm terrible with iOS stuff, so I wouldn't know how.
People who already have it on their device would still have it (on iOS at least). That way, the game would still be popular for a bit and slowly disappear as people get new devices or delete the game.
TripleXero wrote:I don't think it needs to be jailbroken to mess with the save files
This is true, unless the score is encrypted. There's a program by Apple called iPhone Configuration Utility that lets you modify files in any app, and I've even used it to install WhatsApp on an iPod one time (which isn't possible normally, it ran but was locked to iPhones anyway) and to translate an entire app of which the language strings were stored in .txt files! Surely many developers have thought about this, and encrypt the scores. I'm going to check what's possible to change in Flappy Bird, because I'm curious now.
The game gained popularity because people were comparing scores.
I haven't played it, but I've seen it on phone screens dozens of times.
And they freakin' took Mario's pipe design.
That being said, I think they've learned their lesson from all of this.
imaginary cake wrote:And they freakin' took Mario's pipe design.
That being said, I think they've learned their lesson from all of this.
"They" It's just one person.
Also what's wrong with a reference? No one is gonna think when seeing this "Oh it's by nintendo."
And what the lesson would be? "Stop making games"? "Stop making references to games"?(Super meat boy does it and no one is yelling on Edmund for that) "Stop being rich"? "Stop being on twitter"?
Well, with Flappy Bird taken down, I guess I shouldn't use this thread for high scores, since there won't be that many people that will still have the game.
I don't know why, but I like keeping apps that get erased from the App Store, either because they just got taken down or it just was a limited time thing (Flappy Bird, the 12 days of gifts app, etc).
I don't see why anyone would delete the game because it's not on the appstore. I still have a Sonic Olympics game from 2010 that was on the app store for literally like 5 days
Also, apparently the guy made tons of fake 5 star reviews on the game
TripleXero wrote:Also, apparently the guy made tons of fake 5 star reviews on the game
It's not proven. The article that talked about that was pointing out the spikes in the numbers of reviews(Which were caused by the spike in popularity, which was caused by Pewdiepie. Though the spikes in popularity of his other games aren't really explainable.) and the fact that most 5/5 reviews are basically saying "Don't buy this, or you're gonna be depressed", and using the same vocabulary.
TripleXero wrote:Also, apparently the guy made tons of fake 5 star reviews on the game
It's not proven. The article that talked about that was pointing out the spikes in the numbers of reviews(Which were caused by the spike in popularity, which was caused by Pewdiepie. Though the spikes in popularity of his other games aren't really explainable.) and the fact that most 5/5 reviews are basically saying "Don't buy this, or you're gonna be depressed", and using the same vocabulary.
I find allegations that he actually suddenly started some big promotions absolutely ludicrous. It's a game that went viral. The end.
Mari0 actually had a similar story. 12 days after "Mario portals test 3" was posted it suddenly went viral, racking up a shitload of pageviews. If the game was released then it would likely generate even more traffic, but we still managed to get 2,13 million downloads so far.
Terry *Cavanagh* (It's okay it took me forever to habitually spell that right :D) is just so awesome
Thanks for showing us that; I'm going to play it a heck of a lot more than I did the original.