Dong Nguyen pulled the popular and frustrating game Flappy Bird on Sunday from mobile app stores and he has finally explained the reason behind his decision.
"It was just too addictive," he told The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. "That was the main negative. So I decided to take it down."
Nguyen added that he had originally designed the game to be something someone could play for a short time, but it seems that many were playing for a lot longer than that.
He also said that Flappy Bird got him too much attention, enough so that people in Hanoi were constantly bothering him and he hasn't checked his email in a while. He liked making games in his free time and the attention the game brought upon him was "extremely uncomfortable."
Nguyen isn't completely unhappy with the success of Flappy Bird though, as he now has "more freedom and confidence to create more games."
