It's been the gossip of the virtual world this weekend — so Flappy Bird, What Really Happened with it?

The super successful app, No. 1 on both the Apple and Android app stores, became more trendy than Hanoi-based Dong Nguyen ever expected, so he announced he would take it down on Sunday — tweeting "I can't take it anymore."

(As of that time, the app was still available.)

The straightforward, yet insanely difficult game to get a bird cross a path without banging into anything saw over 50 million downloads and the creator was earning $50,000 a day in ad income, Nguyen told website the Verge previously in the week.

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Developers spend incalculable hours modifying their games hoping people will try it out, and find an audience. Who turns their back on a hit, No. 1 game?

Online individuals were scratching their heads.

— "Imagine if (Mark) Zuckerberg walked away from Facebook just because it was hard," tweeted Dale Lavine of Hampton, Virginia.

— Radio DJ Tin Gamboa tweeted that she felt "annoyed" with Dong Nguyen.

— Mike Maney from Doylestown, Pa., thought it was a promotional act. "Whoever hasn't downloaded it already is rushing to do so."

Put significant blogger Robert Scoble in the stunt camp as well.

He surmised on Facebook that Nguyen had by now made enough money in one week to survive a number of years without a salary.

By pulling the game from distribution, he's set up for foremost attention to the next game. "The excitement….will be extraordinary...everyone will buy that new game, making him even richer, because of the panic that he'll delete that game too."

Flappy Bird, What Really Happened?

The Flappy Bird madness goes on, with a second-hand iPhone with the game pre-installed on it having a price of almost $99,000 on eBay.

Game designer Dong Nguyen took down the game from app storeson Android and iPhone yesterday, signifying it can no longer be downloaded, but will still exist on devices that previously have it installed.

This is pretty unreasonable guys. I mean, if I would’ve known this whole Flappy Bird situation was going to lead people into making astounding profit from it, I would’ve bought for myself an iPhone. Seems some witty entrepreneurs out there decided to take it upon themselves to help those who weren’t able to take hold of a Flappy Bird download by throwing iPhones on ebay with the game pre-installed. Hey why not? Could make a couple hundred bucks or so.

The image above shows actual ebay bidding for one of these iPhones with Flappy Bird pre-installed on it. The bid is almost at $99,000! What? I want to believe this is fake, but looking on the authentic page it does seem to be legit. I even saw someone else post a screenshot of another iPhone with Flappy Bird installed on it going for $42,000. Fortunately it’s as simple as, click, click, and click, to put an apk file of the game on our Android devices.

Does this confirm that Flappy Bird is as maddeningly popular as has been argued? Or has the game gained awareness, inescapably flapping towards a final pipe that will always be out of reach?

I can’t even think someone would in reality pay that amount of money, and that very may be the case. It’s not like they are putting actual money on the table. Could be just idiots making fun of other idiots for putting the iPhone on Ebay. But we really will never know. Let us know your feelings about this madness. Maybe its the developer posting these iPhones to scrape up more currency from his game, and all this excitement surrounding it was just a smart marketing scheme.

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Flappy Bird Madness: Second-hand iPhone with Flappy Bird pre-installed on eBay for $99,900

Flappy Bird inventor  Nguyen took to Twitter on Saturday revealing his intentions to take down the trendy game.

"I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down," Nguyen tweeted. "I cannot take this anymore."

When asked if there were any legal grounds behind his decision, Nguyen specified that wasn't the case, adding he just couldn't "keep it anymore".

When a few asked Dong Nguyen if he would be agreeable to sell the game, the Vietnam-based developer indicated otherwise.

In his last tweet on the same subject, Nguyen mentioned that we would keep on making (other) games.

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Flappy Bird has become a viral sensation in current week, with the game become the number one free app on the iOS App Store in many countries, followed by comparable success on Android's Google Play store. Nguyen had also indicated a Windows Phone version of Flappy Bird was on the way.

Flappy Bird's principle is simple, the player has to find the way for the bird through a sequence of gaps between vertical pipe-shaped obstacles (that appeared same as of Nintendo's Mario in terms of artwork ), rising up and down by tapping the screen to flap the bird's wings.

The game's popularity is supposed to be related to its difficulty, with players challenged to set a high score on a worldwide leaderboard. There are no lives, or in-app purchases in Flappy Bird, and players get a single point for each pair of pipes they fly through, and medals after every ten points all the way up to platinum.

Flappy Bird guide blossomed around the Web and app stores to help frustrated players, who criticize of not being able to stop playing, repeatedly wanting to set a new high score. Users sharing screenshots of their new Flappy Bird high score on Facebook and Twitter became a common sight.

At the similar time, many questioned the game's success, with players and 'critics' pointing out the rough animation, awful graphics, badly placed banner ads, and buggy edge-detection.

Flappy Bird for iOS and Android is available as of writing this post, but that looks set to change shortly.

What do you feel of Dong Nguyen's decision to take down the game? Have you played Flappy Bird yet, and what is your high score? Let us know by means of the comments.

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Flappy Bird creator says He will take down the game on Sunday