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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

“The legendary Flappy Bird is back and will fly higher than ever on Solana as it soars into Web 3.0 … Flappy Bird will now be the world’s first open-source, community owned web2 and web3 game … Build, create, play and stake to own,” the landing text reads.

It's...Flappy...Bird. WTF are they on about?! The game is already one step below Pac-Man. This is like trying to monetize Pong.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Court documents reveal that Gametech Holdings had pinched the trademark from Nguyen after the original developer missed refiling for it. The Flappy Bird Foundation, spearheaded by game designer Michael Roberts, then purchased it from Gametech.

I didn’t know about the trademark take over. But, thats a great start to the reputation of this thing. Unfortunately most people won’t even realise what is going on here, so what are the chances some will mistake this as Nguyen’s doing?

The whole plan and background for this game sounds abhorrent.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Quite a stretch to call this Flappy Bird. It’s more like: trademark sniped and name being reused to snag unsuspecting users looking for the original game.

New game by the same name is obvious cash grab. Of course it would be. Its entire purpose is name squatting the real Flappy Bird. They even went so far as to name themselves The Flappy Bird Foundation with no real relation to the titular game, for the express purpose of sounding official.

You’d be lucky it doesn’t come with malware because the entire premise is fundamentally a scam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This whole thing weirdly parallels Atari SA

Both iconic names that shut down, had their trademark taken by an unrelated company, and now do crypto related things.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Welcome to dystopia. Jesus Christ this is bleak shit.