Angry Birds could be back to the virtual shelves of the Google Play shop, Rovio claims in an interview with Axios.

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According to the publisher, the game was removed from the app shop not because of its enormous impact on sales, but primarily because of the impact on search queries in the context of the company’s other games. Rovio explained that the original first installment of the franchise was pushing other Angry Birds games out of the top, thereby leveling their importance. More often than not, users simply saw the first part of the game with a $1 price tag at the top, which negatively impacted the company’s other game downloads, as users simply lost interest in everything else that the search query offered.

Angry Birds could be back

Rovio has already tried a number of fixes, including renaming the app from the original Angry Birds to Rovio Classics: Angry Birds, removing the name from the game’s metadata and more.

We have spent the last 10 or 11 months trying to solve this problem. The failure of these treatment attempts has left the company with no choice but to do something more radical to prove its hypothesis.

Ben Mattes, head of strategy at Rovio

The game has remained on iOS with the updated name Red’s First Flight, and in case of a positive impact on downloads in relation to other games, the game will return to the Android app shop as well. If testing does not show much change, Red’s First Flight will suffer a similar fate and the developer will remove it from the AppStore in favour of their other games.

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