Smartphones With Discontinued Flappy Bird Game are Listed on eBay for $1 Billion

Over the weekend, the web and gaming community was shocked by news from Flappy Bird’s developer, Dong Nguyen, who announced that he was taking the game offline, due to continuous pressure from the press. Not long after the game’s take down from the app store, mocks and clones took its place in the 1,2,5, and 10 spots as the most popular game of the moment.

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Not to be outdone, eBay sellers have responded by offering used iPhones with the obsolete app for thousands of dollars.

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