inXile has killed Flying Rider
The 15 August, Flying Rider will be removed from the App Store has inXile required it. I receive one mail per day attacking me for rights reasons… It’s very boring, so I decide to stop everything. Sorry for you guys. Understand that I have put money and time on this project, it’s hard for me too… But the sharks always win…
I will close the Flying Rider’s story by saying:
In competition, you’re the first if you are better than all other competitors, not by killing them. Because if you stay the only one competitor, so you will be the first and the last at the same time.
14 August 2008 à 9:26
Damn, you did great my friend, I am curious what the email said but o well, try to work with them, you can probably make a money deal with them and it will turn out ok… I didn’t want to see this project die
14 August 2008 à 9:50
The project is already died…
14 August 2008 à 11:10
Hi
I just wondering sins you will end the FlyingRider project
Can you put the flying rider on installer 4.0 ?
so other people can have it ?
then you can get feedbacks and stuff and also you can have a donation…
MertenNor
14 August 2008 à 11:36
Damn them!, it was such a great app aswell. If we allready have downloaded it will it delete itself?
14 August 2008 à 12:04
Hello Peter,
How can Inxile tell you to remove YOUR app? Although it may seem similar to linerider, you can’t delete it because they requested you to. They can’t do anything about it because it’s not even copying their code or their design in any shape or form. They may threaten you but that doesn’t mean shut down because of that! They really can’t do anything to you. Why are there many sudoku apps, bejeweled apps, and others? They can’t take you down, you’re scared, but my friend, you have no reason to be because you’re not doing a wrong with your app. Inxile is jealous and they want you not to succeed. Inxile can try suing you but that’s just threatening you and nothing will happen. You have a right to develop apps!
14 August 2008 à 13:40
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14 August 2008 à 14:23
tom I respected you when it came out and they were threatining u but u still put it on and now u just give up?!?! that’s not cool u should stay with it, so u get some hate mail that didn’t stop u from downloading it to apple and now all of the sudden u just nancy out?!?!
u should stay with it —-smith
14 August 2008 à 16:20
even though I already downloaded it I still feel bad. It’s your game and you have the right to it not them.
If we already downloaded it will it delete itself?
And why not make it for installer or cydia?
Keep on going man don’t give up
14 August 2008 à 18:22
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14 August 2008 à 18:24
Step 1 - Rename app
Step 2 - Change sprit of rider
Step 3 - Sumbit to itunes
Step 4 - Sent Inxile stfu message
14 August 2008 à 18:44
You could still make the app available through cydia and installer for those who have jailbroken their ipods/iphones. and put a donation link in the description or something.
14 August 2008 à 19:00
ok man heres what i am going to do since i already downloaded it and have my ipo jailbroken i am going to remove the drm post a repo to it and tell you the repo so you can still work on it and give us updates! Because just as long as you didnt use any of jnxiles code or images they cannit do anything to you just make sure that you didnt copy any code or stuff and it should be legal and tbey cant do anything to you!
14 August 2008 à 19:33
How could they have copyright claims over this application? They didn’t make this application. Your not using their images or code. Is it open source? NO. You did it all by yourself with your own code. They don’t own the idea of drawing lines and having a sled ride on it. I could make a game like that and if they said anything I would say fuck you its not your application. I think that it is illegal for them to be making copyright claims for it. I think at the least put it on Installer 4.0 or Cydia.
My opinion,
Jacob Lindelof
14 August 2008 à 20:31
Everyone please complain to them. If they get hundreds of angry emails, they might change their mind. If that doesn’t work, we should organize a boycott of all of their products/ games. Someone should hack their website and totally destroy it lol. jk
14 August 2008 à 22:24
well if you r gunna fully giv up at least it was the best exclusive app
15 August 2008 à 0:11
release it on cydia/installer flying tom inxile can stop that
15 August 2008 à 1:10
Listen…
I know that this may not be 100% allowed…
I am sure Tom will approve it
But, for all of you with JailBroken iPhone’s/iPods… Here is a .app.
http://rapidshare.com/files/137401259/FlyingRider.app.zip.html
Copy it to ~/Applications set permissions to 755.
15 August 2008 à 2:57
dude…. if the people from inXile make that app and charges for it…. you better release that one and let them keep on spamming you… infact place them as spam…. so you can live peacefully. you work damn hard for it… inXile did not say a word that they will make it…. or you can put on cydia… i waited for so long for this amazong app… and now you are gonna let you down… they weren’t even planing on doing this for the ipod… when they release thiers. release your as lite… or you can be welcome to the jb community…
15 August 2008 à 11:45
Please put this on Cydia or Installer 4. Im begging you. Im addicted to the online version of line rider. I didnt come to find out about this application until today (the day they removed it) PLEASE!!!!
16 August 2008 à 0:29
OK dude i really was looking forward t this app…HOW THE HELL IS THIS APP BORING!? have they even considered leting it go public!? and see the feedback and the many downloads it gets because their are 100% totaly stupid a$$ app’s out their and they go public like some game called “Scrabble” wtf is that some lame drawing app u get 4 colours and a save button THATS ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND THIS APP CAN KICK ANY OTHER APP’S AS4 ON APP STORE WTF DUDE DONT QUITE IF YOU STILL HAVE THE DATA/FILE FOR THE APP PROUDLY PUT IT ON THE APP STORE IM NOT SAYING THAT SO THAT I CAN DOWNLOAD IT (I WILL IF YOU DO xD) BUT U SHOULD PROUDLY POST IT AND LIKE BOB92 SAID : SEND THEM A “STFU” MESSAGE. Dude ur losing everything you worked you fu.ckin as.s off with and ur willing to just throw it away just like that!? WTF MAN OK HERES SOMETHING TO THING ABOUT: Thier are like 5Million Blackjack games on the app store, all of them preety much alike or 100% alike!!! i dont think everytime they poste it on the app store an opposing blackjack app developer sends them hate mails just so that they have better sells!!!! What about “LineRider”: YOUR APP IS CALLED “FLYING RIDER”. Thier are like 1Million diffrences in this app than line rider has. you get a diffrent rider. and all ur doing is drawing likes and tracks just like line rider. and blackjack has the EXACT SAME GOAL: HIT 21!!!!!! Why do u have to be threatened that ull get sued. Ok dude i beileve in you and i know you will do the right thing. But my last remark oon this subject is: Are you really telling us “FANS” the truth? or did they pay you off with like $3.5k or something like that because if they did please just tell us the truth. And “IF” they did and you feel ashamed…or not can we get the real e-mail message that they sent you. i KNow ever1 here wants to know what happned because every f.u.ckin day iv been looking at the app store for like 1-2 Hours im not exagirating or dramatizing id go to google and search and go to apple page and search go on blogs and ask ect. ect. but now after all this waiting i come here to read that you/they kilt the game!!!! dude do whats right and give us fans the truth. U rock and always will man
16 August 2008 à 17:27
I’m sorry this didn’t work out like you wanted it to. I was looking forward to it, but I didn’t hear about it in time. Hey, you had a great port going, from the vids I’ve seen. Hopefully Xile will change their minds (fat chance), but in the mean time, at least we know it can be done. Merci Beaucoup.
Bichiliad
17 August 2008 à 22:11
FlyingTomROCKS dit : if he does put it in the apps store is has 80% chance of getting sued which he will lose lots of money
18 August 2008 à 23:44
God… that really sucks ass. I just got back from Alaska. Damn… NOOOOOOOOOOOO Whyyyy…
T-T
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9 October 2008 à 0:04
Hi Tom,
why not put it on Cydia and with a paypal donation link for you?
would be the best for all of us with jailbroken phones iPods
:D
cheers
9 October 2008 à 9:26
Danny,
The official Line Rider iRide is clearly better than Flying Rider. I think that 2,99$ is not very expensive…
Anyway, I don’t want to put time on this project anymore. Maybe I can put the original source code on SourceForge for example… as it is…
If someone is interesting on the source code, just let me know.
28 October 2008 à 10:48
Nice apps, such a waste!
You can make it available for jailbreak phones
or check-in to Googlecode