the classic mobile game disappears, hurry to download it

It’s hard to explain how successful it was angry Birds at his time. More than a game, it was a real mass phenomenon, which demonstrated the potential of smartphones in the gaming sector.

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Its developer, Rovio, became a giant in the sector overnight, and since then, practically every year, it releases a new game related to the saga. But the original was always the most beloved by fans, and that was a problem.

Angry Birds disappeared from Android

Indeed, Angry Birds is such a popular game that harms its creators

. A sentence that may seem absurd, but it makes sense: there are so many people who continue to play the original, who are not interested in the sequels and new versions that come out over the years.

This is the strange reason why Rovio announced today that will stop selling angry Birds an android from Thursday. The app will simply disappear during the day and users won’t be able to find it when they search for the name of the game. iPhone users will be luckier because in their case the app will only change its name to “Red’s First Flight”, dropping the Angry Birds branding to not show up in search.

There isn’t a lot of history of anything like it, simply because there aren’t many games as successful as Angry Birds; and normally the developer tries to get the most out of a game, so stopping its sales is never an option. But at Rovio they believe that they compete against themselves by allowing the classic game to continue to be sold.

Please read an important announcement regarding the availability of Rovio Classics: Angry Birds below. pic.twitter.com/a4n4bU5gQJ

—Rovio (@Rovio) February 21, 2023

Interestingly, this won’t be the first time angry Birds It disappears from app stores. In 2019, something similar already happened, but in this case it was due to a copyright issue and old software that was not adapted to new mobiles; After a fan-organized social media campaign, the company had to bring back the game, now called Rovio Classics: Angry Birds

making it paid and modernizing its graphics engine.

But people would rather pay the $1.19 that Angry Birds costs than play one of the new free games in the series, which are much more profitable for Rovio because they have micropayments. Specifically, the company recommends Angry Birds 2, Angry Birds Friends, and Angry Birds Journey if we want the experience.

The good news is that if you have already purchased angry Birds, it will continue to work and you can continue to download it from your account; this only affects new users who wish to purchase the game.

Therefore, if you want to play Angry Birds again in the future, we recommend that you purchase the game now, before it is removed from the store.