Dong Nguyen, creator of Flappy Bird, and his justification for removing it from the app store

We all know Flappy Bird . If not from our own experience playing it, then from its sudden rise in the App Store charts over the last month.

When news broke that Dong Nguyen , creator of the hit game, was planning to remove it from the App Store indefinitely, we all asked ourselves the same question: Why? Whatever Dong's reason for removing the app, which generated approximately $50,000 USD daily , it had to be a very good one.

It was about time Dong Nguyen , a humble developer who never imagined such success, gave us an explanation. In a conversation with Forbes, the Vietnam resident explained that his most successful creation was initially developed as a way to pass the time, but far from that goal, Flappy Bird had become incredibly addictive. Dong explained that his app "has become a problem. To solve that problem, the best thing to do is delete Flappy Bird ." He then concluded his statement with something that will be a disappointment to those who haven't had the chance to delete it in time: "It's gone forever."