Angry Birds stores slamming into China, game breaks 500M downloads

Jesus Christ...

Uh what? Lol who cares?

By god is this game overrated...

Not even China can withstand The Angry Birds. Soon their flock will consume the Earth. We will all be enslaved and forced to clean their massive galactic bird cages, all the while they consume the Earth's precious supply of water and birdseed. They'll leave the planet a dessicated husk, then move on and take over another planet and their smartphones....Oh yeah, they killed all our pigs, NO MORE BACON!

Why won't this fad die already!?!?!

Ok this game is getting way too much attention. I wont deny it but I did enjoyed it for like 1 hr then it was just the same thing over and over.

why havent they made a true sequel yet? like... agitated squirrels.

I'm sure there's a H1N1 joke in there somewhere, I just can't think of one :(

It will be interesting to see if there's a demand for the genuine article, at a higher price than the knockoffs.

And yet... it's still not on steam.

People who are hating on this game are jealous they didn't make the game first. ; )

This generations pet rock.

Sometimes I hate my species....

The value of Angry Birds will last forever, just like Beanie Babies!

Jesus Christ, why is this repetitive nonsense so popular!?

"Mistakes were made."

I groaned when I saw the Angry Birds plushes in Wal-Mart the other day. This crap is getting ridiculous.

I have a hunch the company is padding these numbers by downloading and redownloading the game on their devices as many times as possible to keep pushing the number up.

There's probably a whole division in another wing of their offices dedicated to downloading and redownloading. If you don't make quota of at least 100 downloads a day you're fired.

I don't get it. Why is it so popular? I've played it. I played some again the other day. I eventually got bored. Addictive? Not to me. Fun? Uh..... no?

To each their own, though. If people like it, that's okay, but it definitely is overrated beyond belief. Also, the irony of them making official products by copying the unlicensed ones is just the most hysterical concept ever. Good luck with the store, Rovio. I know I'll never go near an Angry Birds shop.

"...we're extremely delighted to see such an incredible amount of people enjoying our games..."

And how exactly downloading this game for free means that i have enjoyed it?

"Rovio plans to copy items it sees in the market and officially sell them in its retail locations."

Just like when they made the game itself, when they copied Crush The Castle to make Angry Birds.

It's just like the early 2000's when every college kid had "Snood" on their PC, not realizing it was a blatant copy of Neo-Geo's Puzzle Bobble (Bust A Move).

I get why it's popular. It has easily identifiable characters, the gameplay is simple, it can be played in very short bursts... It gets that it's a mobile game and it plays to that strength.

I don't get people who say it's the best game ever either, but most of these people that I've met never really even played a game before. It's more that it's the first game they've really enjoyed, if anything. And that's a good thing, in the scheme of things... but you have to take that with a grain of salt.

As for these numbers, I've gotten this game for free 2 times on Amazon now. I know the free version has ads which bring in revenue, but you have to wonder how many of these are the same people downloading it over and over. I'd be more interested in unique players or exact amount of premium purchases... They never seem to share that.

The only hate that comes from me on this is toward their one owner, who really is an egotistical dick as been stated multiple times. At some point they're going to have to do something other than reskinning the same game... We'll see what happens then.