End of Flappy Bird ?

Flappy Bird, the phenom game of the last few weeks, may be making its creator rich, but it is not making him happy. So he’s taking the game off the App Store.

Dong Nguyen from Vietnam announced in a tweet on Saturday, "I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down."

It’s not clear what Nguyen cannot take. He may be referring to the widespread criticism of the game’s simple but nearly impossible mechanics, the overwhelming press attention he’s gotten, the necessity to maintain the game, or perhaps some other outside impingement. A further tweet indicates that the reason is not legal, even if Nguyen’s English does leave some room for interpretation: “It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.”

Further tweets indicate that he is not selling Flappy Bird off, and that he will also continue to make new games.

Nguyen told The Verge that he was netting $50,000 a day from in-game advertising revenue, fueling curiosity and speculation about the reason for his decision to turn off that revenue stream.

In a tweet on February 4, he wrote, “Press people are overrating the success of my games. It is something I never want. Please give me peace.”

Get It While You Can  

If you don’t have Flappy Bird yet, hurry to the App Store and download the game for your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. You have until noon Eastern Time on Sunday, February 9, based on the time Nguyen posted his notice.

Once you have the app, you should be able to continue to play it as long as it’s on your device. When apps are deleted from the App Store, they do not get erased from devices.

An app that relies on networked services to function could stop working if the services are turned off, but as far as we know all Flappy Bird draws from the Net are advertisements from a third party and a leaderboard (top scores) from Apple’s Game Center. The game should keep working. So if you’re addicted to Flappy Bird, there’s little danger you’ll have to go cold turkey on Sunday.

As far as we know this is the end of the road for this amateurish and oddly popular game.

What are your thoughts on this game?  Personally I feel as is the game got too big too fast.  Although I wonder why the owner would take it down if he is making $50,000 a day in-game advertisement.  What do you guys think is going on?  Please comment / subscribed / like g+.

Article Originally appeared in yahoo.com