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Very loaded and negative title. People wanted to make Flappy Bird publically available again, sincd its creator took it down indefinitely.
It's very easy to make a mechanical clone of the game if someone wanted to play it.
This is purely about greedy crypto bros trying to grift off of Flappy Bird and using legal loopholes to steal the trademark
They could’ve done that without the greedy crypto aspect, but as the enshittification trend goes, they just couldn’t help themselves.
Purely opportunistic bullshit and painting it as anything innocent is disingenuous.
Did you even read the article?
This is not the same Flappy Bird. The original game already has been preserved, the APK is floating around if you know where to look.
This new game is an outright scam using stolen IP to trick users into thinking this is the original.
They're scum for the grift but flappy bird doesn't deserve a trademark. US IP laws are draconian enough.