A staff of self-proclaimed Flappy Chicken followers are seemingly re-releasing the Flappy Chicken recreation as a crypto mission, drawing critical flak from customers on X (previously Twitter).
The Flappy Chicken reboot was introduced yesterday, ten years after the unique was taken off the app retailer. Nonetheless, this new model of Flappy Chicken has plans to make it a web3 recreation on Solana, describing it as “the world’s first open-source, community owned Web 2 and Web 3 game.”
Elsewhere, on a web-based model of the Flappy Chicken recreation, it seems to say a $FLAP Token that will likely be on Telegram’s blockchain, characteristic staking choices, and provides out free airdrops.
It’s not clear whether or not the ultimate cryptocurrency token will likely be launched on Solana or Telegram or why these pages usually are not prominently linked on the web site; maybe the cryptocurrency-related plans have been deserted.
Elsewhere the mission proclaims, “Artists, developers and creators can build, play and earn from the legendary Flappy Bird IP.” The chief artistic for the Flappy Chicken revival is reportedly Michael Roberts, who can be a cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind the NFT mission “Deez.”
These cryptocurrency targeted pages have been discovered on the Flappy Chicken sitemap. Lots of these pages have been taken down as we speak, following this controversy. The present Flappy Chicken homepage seems to lack these crypto parts.
Flappy Chicken crypto rebrand wasn’t well-received
Customers have referred to as the staff behind the sport “grifters,” described it as a “crypto Ponzi scheme,” and dubbed it a “crypto scam.”
Customers are additionally sad with how the staff acquired the rights to Flappy Chicken. Certainly, on September 29, 2023, developer Gametech Holdings LLC filed a trademark dispute towards Flappy Chicken’s unique creator, Dong Nguyen Ha.
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Nguyen didn’t defend the dispute and misplaced the rights to Flappy Chicken whereas Gametech Holdings LLC claimed the IP. Certainly, inside the Flappy Chicken sitemap, it says, “We’ve flapped our way to acquiring the legal rights to the legendary Flappy Bird!”
Flappy Chicken was well-known in 2013 for its frustratingly addictive gameplay of transferring a hen between pipes. It went viral and ultimately led to its creator shutting the sport down in February 2014 when the sport’s fame grew to become an excessive amount of for Nguyen.
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