It seems Flappy Bird will be coming back, after all. Following the removal of his extremely popular game from the iOS and Google Play App Stores, Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen now says he's prepared to bring it back.
In response to a question about whether or not he was going to put Flappy Bird back up on the App Store, Nguyen answered concisely: "Yes. But not soon."
After taking Flappy Bird offline, Nguyen revealed he wasn't prepared for the fame his creation would bring him. "I think it has become a problem," he said of his game shortly after removing it in February. "It's gone forever."
It now seems that removal will not last forever.
Nguyen's Twitter account was filled with dismay and dreariness leading to his decision to pull the game from the iOS and Google Play stores. "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down," he tweeted on February 8. "I cannot take this anymore," he added in a different tweet, saying, "It also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it."
Recently, Nguyen's Twitter feed has seen him interacting with his fans in a markedly more cheerful tone. He even went so far as to retweet a mural in Paris depicting his creation before revealing Flappy Bird would return.
It seems as though his attitude has changed from saving users from themselves -- Nguyen was worried about how addictive his game could be -- to one more along the lines of giving the people what they want. What they want, apparently, is more Flappy Bird. After his tweet announcing the game was to be pulled, it was downloaded 10 million times in 24 hours, according to a Rolling Stone interview with Nguyen. It has since been replaced by countless clones, both on mobile devices and computers.
Did you think that you'd heard the last about Flappy Bird forever? Or is Nguyen's turn around unsurprising given the game's reported revenues?
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