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If anyone’s confused about the new Prime Pass check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_pass

 

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Someone finally beat me to it!

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I can’t point you to a download for TNT, but I can share this page with you: Angry Birds Evolution Unused Content.  It has some info on TNT and other early versions of Evolution.

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In other news, water is wet.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

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All of ’em.

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We’ll miss you man, we’ll miss you.

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@pigbasher

Honestly, I’d like to say it’s been gone for the better part of 2019, if not all of it.  This first happened a couple years ago, and the game (and the others that had disappeared with it) eventually returned, but now?  I don’t have a clue.  All we can do is hope.

About the purchases, I just checked – it’s gone in my section too, which is weird considering the other older games are still there.  Normally, that’s not supposed to happen, and it should be there, but again, I have no idea what Rovio is doing right now.

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Did you log into Google Play Games?  I know that sometimes saves your game data.

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Rovio has removed it from the app stores for ‘testing purposes’.  When and if it (and all the other old games) will return is a complete mystery.  It should be in your purchases, though.

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Try to contact Rovio.  Maybe there is a way they can restore it based on some account information you have (such as stuff you posted here).

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Well, I haven’t played it in a bit, but to my understanding it has become very pay-2-win friendly.  That said, it still is a very fun game.  You’d probably be better off downloading the Windows 10 version since it was made for a computer (and won’t have any weird bugs), but I haven’t ever used BlueStacks.

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Ok, I didn’t know where to post this.  First off, I think ABT is a fantastic game.  I have loved every second I’ve played it, and I hope it continues getting updates.  I just find it hilarious that this was the game that made it through the great AB purge of 2017, and not, say, Classic or Seasons.  That said, this is still a great game.  (Please don’t take this the wrong way)

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@guibird2971koge  Here is the link to the generic, non-AB game:

https://www.facebook.com/RovioEntertainment/posts/2581759058551497

edit:  If you go to this page, you can see all of the ads Rovio is running:

https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/?active_status=all&ad_type=all&country=US&view_all_page_id=232213853506041

Weirdly enough, they have multiple versions of each ad.  I probably shouldn’t doubt marketing tactics, though.

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Of course I can’t find it now, but if I see it again later, I’ll post the link.  Also, I forgot to mention this above, but Rovio is also running an ad for a game that looks and extremely similar, but with the AB characters replaced with generic fantasy ones (the survey questions are the same, too).  They’re probably trying to gauge which is more popular, and then make the game based off of that (fingers crossed for AB).

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Woah.  Apparently this is only for android, and has been in closed beta for months under the developer “Dark Matter.”  If anything, any new games under that group might be from Rovio.  Still, it’s not Angry Birds.

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@mikemaz42  You’re right!  Hopefully Rovio is doing ‘testing’ again and they will pop back up soon.

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@mvnla2  That’s great.  Yeah, the game’s definitely more ftp that the older ones.  I do like how there is always a line of sight, among other little things POP 1 didn’t have.  A couple months back, Rovio changed all of their support pages (they used a new client or something).  Finding an actual person is a bit ridiculous now.  There’s some backwards way to actually write something in, somewhere.  It’s just really hidden.

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@mvnla2  Welcome back!  I think POP 2 was released in the US last week (source: is in my app store now) and it should work.  Honestly if the game isn’t functioning like it should, just delete it and reinstall it.  This usually works for games like this.  If it still doesn’t then maybe it’s your device, or maybe it’s something you’d have to contact Rovio Support about.  I hope it works, it’s one of the better AB Match-3’s!

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Angry Birds Nest to Angry Birds Evolution: “You could not live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me.”

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@mighty-red-1  Angry Birds POP 2 has been released onto the United States App Store.  Also, Rovio has soft-launched a game/app called Angry Birds Explore, which uses AR and the bird codes from the AB Movie 1 to promote the AB Movie 2.

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@grammyK

Yeah, this one just released worldwide.  I think it’s a port of the VR game from earlier this year, so I wonder how that game actually did.  Either way, I like the mobile version because it’s finally something different.

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You know, I’ve personally seen over a dozen games go down for the count, and I’ve heard of hundreds more.  Disney and EA and probably many other companies have lists of all the games that were abandoned and pulled, many with their servers closed.  Even Rovio’s no stranger to this; just look at the slaughter of late 16-17.  It’s really sad, though, when so many suddenly disappear all at once.  It really makes you wonder about what’s next to come.  Here’s the good thing though: many games, tie-ins or not, get canned before a year is up.  Angry Birds is almost 10 years old now, and the other games are just younger than that.  Millions of people experienced these games and loved them.  Even if they’re gone now, we all can say we have personal experiences and memories with the series.

Oh, and @mikemaz42 , you mentioned greyed out games in your purchased tab.  If I recall correctly, those are all the games that were stuck running in 32 bits when Apple made 64 mandatory.  Luckily, like you said, none of the Angry Birds games were left to this fate.  Still, the ‘promise’ that our games are in the cloud and can be downloaded whenever we want is a thin one at that.

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I contacted Rovio support, and wrote this:

“Hi, I was looking through the U.S. App Store, and it seems that the original Angry Birds and several other games have been delisted. Is this going to be permanent, or is it a temporary thing? Thanks.”

Today they responded back with:

“I fully realize how confusing it might be when you are not able to install our games on your devices. Please be kindly informed that those games are undergoing A/B tests at the moment. The test group is chosen at random and there is no way for us to add or remove players from these groups. However, please know that these changes are not permanent – the tests will simply finish. While we understand that these tests may be upsetting, they are necessary to improve our games for the whole Angry Birds community.”

So, if this is to be believed, the games might not be permanently gone.  I don’t know what kind of A/B testing they could be doing, other than to see how much money certain games make.  But still, there’s a sliver of hope.  We don’t want another Stella situation.

@Birdleader  I’m sure you’ve seen this, but I just wanted to add you to this just so you could stay in the know.

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This is a bit crazy.

I just wanted to put the info out there that the “purchased” tab is a thing on both the Google Play and App Stores, so once you’ve downloaded a game, you will be able to redownload them.  Of course, if the game required a server, having the app on your device won’t help any bit.

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All of the old games are gone, at least in the US.  I hope this isn’t what I think it is.

Edit: Something like this has happened before.  Something caused the older ones to disappear for some time a while ago.  Still, they and others like Transformers are gone, so that’s not good.