A staff of self-proclaimed Flappy Chook followers are seemingly re-releasing the Flappy Chook recreation as a crypto mission, drawing critical flak from customers on X (previously Twitter). 

The Flappy Chook reboot was introduced yesterday, ten years after the unique was taken off the app retailer. Nonetheless, this new model of Flappy Chook 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 Chook recreation, it seems to say a $FLAP Token that might be on Telegram’s blockchain, characteristic staking choices, and provides out free airdrops.

It’s not clear whether or not the ultimate cryptocurrency token might be launched on Solana or Telegram or why these pages are usually 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 inventive for the Flappy Chook revival is reportedly Michael Roberts, who can be a cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind the NFT mission “Deez.”

These cryptocurrency centered pages have been discovered on the Flappy Chook sitemap. A lot of these pages have been taken down at the moment, following this controversy. The present Flappy Chook homepage seems to lack these crypto parts.

Flappy Chook crypto rebrand wasn’t well-received 

Customers have known 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 Chook. Certainly, on September 29, 2023, developer Gametech Holdings LLC filed a trademark dispute in opposition to Flappy Chook’s unique creator, Dong Nguyen Ha. 

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Nguyen didn’t defend the dispute and misplaced the rights to Flappy Chook whereas Gametech Holdings LLC claimed the IP. Certainly, inside the Flappy Chook sitemap, it says, “We’ve flapped our way to acquiring the legal rights to the legendary Flappy Bird!” 

Flappy Chook was well-known in 2013 for its frustratingly addictive gameplay of transferring a chicken between pipes. It went viral and finally led to its creator shutting the sport down in February 2014 when the sport’s fame turned an excessive amount of for Nguyen.

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