8 Creators Who HATED Their Own Video Games

8. Dong Nguyen - Flappy Bird

Remember that scene in Star Wars when Alderaan gets destroyed and Old Man Kenobi says "Ah bums, I just got a splitting headache from all them lot yelling out and being sad, like", well that was pretty much what happened when Flappy Bird hit mobile phone storefronts way back in 2013.

The game was making money hand over fist, but it was equally amassing a huge amount of ire from online communities, who became enraged that such a simple game was so bloody hard. Clearly, they'd never played that chopper runner game that was all the rage when I was at school, because that was akin to a war crime when it came to punishing brutality.

Yet I digress. Dong Nguyen, the creator of this slice of gaming sadism soon became inundated with complaints, personal harassment, and even death threats over Flappy Bird, and so, despite its rampant success, pulled the game from sale and retreated from the public eye. To hate your game because of failure is one thing, but to end up killing it entirely because of its popularity is something else.