Terraria Stadia port canceled after developer issues

This is unfortunately not a super an unusual problem that people are randomly excluded from Google Accounts, and in many cases the recovery process is fraught with frustrating waiting. This is what happened to the co-creator of Terraria, and as a result, the upcoming port to Google Stages of the game has been completely canceled.

The looming arrival of Terraria was first seen last week when the game moved through PEGI, but it was never officially announced. Presumably the launch would be included in one of Google’s upcoming posts “This Week on Stages”.

Either way, it’s not happening anymore. Andrew Spinks, the co-creator of Terraria, announced on Twitter the decision to start the week. He explains that his personal Google Account has been locked for about three weeks now, and that Spinks could not access his 15-year Gmail account, ‘thousands of dollars’ in Google Play app / movie purchases, and his Google Drive data do not get. The problems started with YouTube when the Terraria YouTube channel was shut down.

Spinks claims that he “did nothing to violate Google’s Terms of Service, which led to the decision to withdraw Terraria from Stadia altogether. The project has been canceled, and Spinks further says that his company will “no longer support any of Google’s platforms in the future, saying that it is an obligation to do business with Google.”

Terraria is still available in the Google Play Store for Android and Android TV, and is currently also part of Google Play Pass.

We reached out to Google to see if they could provide additional information on the situation.

Update 2/9: The people at Stadia Bron contacted the studio behind Terraria to get a little more context about the situation, as well as to confirm the co – creator’s tweets. In the long statement below, the studio confirms that the Stadia port of Terraria as well as future projects of the company will not be launched on Google platforms, but the current version of the game available on Android will not be pulled .

Our CEO, Andrew Spinks, issued a statement earlier today on our ongoing issues regarding his Google Account (demilogies). We took time to review comments from the public and in the media to determine where any confusion might occur. We’ve provided the following to alleviate this confusion / misperception surrounding the @demilogic account issue:

• Android / Google Play versions of Terraria are not affected. Punishing existing customers who paid for our game on these platforms is not about that. To be clear: there does not have to be any impact on Terraria on Google platforms, both existing / purchased games and ongoing store availability.
• The comments about the future availability of Re-Logic games on Google platforms relate to everything that is not currently available. This includes all future versions of Terraria (such as Stadia), as well as other games that our studio will develop in the future.
• The consequences here are not isolated on mr. Spinks’ personal affairs, programs, and so on. While this is very clear, it is also very. Due to the early days of the company, when Mr. Spinks was the only employee of the company, there are quite a few legacy connections to the demilogical account that have been broken. These include the Re-Logic YouTube account, many important documents stored on Drive, and more. The impact is significant – and this has been made clear to Google repeatedly.

The timeline of events:

• Demilogic account receives notification of a violation from YouTube in mid-January. It was quite confusing for us.
  • We did not upload in three months.
  • No one in our massive fans / subscribers noticed that new content was uploaded, much less insulting.
  • In addition, YouTube’s initial correspondence on this matter was clear that it was not an important issue:
    • “We know you may not have realized that it violates our policies, so we do not apply a strike to your channel. We have removed the content. ”
    • No action or response has been requested or suggested in this email.
  • Since that time, through our efforts on Twitter with the support team on YouTube, we have been informed that our Re-Logic YouTube channel is clean and has no issues.
  • To date, we have not been notified of any actual details behind the actual violation alleged.
  • Three days later, the entire Demilogic account – including Gmail, Google Play Apps, Drive and all other Google services – was deactivated. Multiple calls through the standard channels are received with an automatic rejection without further information.
  • There have been many ways with Google in the private attempt to resolve this issue – far beyond what people saw on Twitter a few weeks ago. Information was sparse and difficult to obtain, even though we were a longtime partner.
  • Even in the face of strong evidence that this is wrongdoing – evidence that has been in hand for almost two weeks now – it remains unresolved
• This is not a position we like or take lightly. Google has been a long-time partner, but the inability to resolve it for us, a supposedly valued partner, within a time span of almost a month is not acceptable.
• In addition, we are aware of many other incidents in a similar vein with a recurring pattern of ‘ban out of the blue’ without information about the reason and no use. This has happened to countless individuals as well as developers for Android and beyond. We hope our situation is a warning to others as well as a vehicle to shine a bright spotlight on this issue as a whole. As a result, there may be a significant change in the customer service front within Google. It is much needed.
• For those within Google who have done their best to help nothing, we appreciate their efforts. It really is a shame that has come up to this point.

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