Terraria Now Coming to Stadia After Co-Creator Has Google Accounts Restored

Update 03/01/2021: Terraria will be coming to Stadia after all, after the game's co-creator had access to their Google accounts restored. In an update on the Terraria forum, Terraria admin Loki wrote:

"As you may have noticed, we had a ton of issues to kick off the year stemming from the locking-down of [co-creator Andrew Spinks'] entire Google account in early January. After a month of pushing (and with the immense support of our fans), Google finally reached out and was able to provide a lot of transparency around the situation and to restore access to all of our accounts.

Due to the hard work the Stadia team has put in - as well as our partners at 505 Games - we have decided that we will allow the upcoming launch Terraria on Google Stadia to proceed. The Terraria Stadia build is based on the DR Studios 1.4.0.5 (latest) build, and is currently at Google for certification review."

We've contacted developer Re-Logic for comment on its plans for future games' release on Stadia. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Update: The developers of Terraria, Re-Logic, have shared more details about what their severed ties with Google mean. Including how the boycott will include future versions of Terraria and future games from the studio. But existing versions of Terraria on Android and Google Play will not be impacted by the co-creator's decisions today. In a statement to IGN, Re-Logic says “Punishing existing customers who paid for our game on these platforms is not what we are about. To be clear: there should be no impact whatsoever to Terraria on Google platforms, both existing/purchased games as well as ongoing store availability.” The studio also provided a more in-depth timeline on how its issues with Google came about. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Original Story: The co-creator of Terraria has canceled the upcoming Google Stadia version of the game after his Google accounts were locked. Andrew Spinks, or Demilogic on Twitter, explained that he has lost access to all of his Google accounts, including Google Play, Google Drive, YouTube and Gmail. Spinks has been trying to recover them for over three weeks, but his attempts have been unsuccessful, as he claims he has been "given the runaround" by Google. "I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge," Spinks adds. "Consider it burned. Terraria for Google Stadia is cancelled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward."

I absolutely have not done anything to violate your terms of service, so I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge. Consider it burned. #Terraria for @GoogleStadia is canceled. My company will no longer support any of your platforms moving forward.

— Andrew Spinks (@Demilogic) February 8, 2021

"I will not be involved with a corporation that values their customers and partners so little," Spinks continues. "Doing business with you is a liability." Just a few days ago, fans had spotted that Terraria had been rated for Google Stadia on the Pan European Game Information website. It now looks like that version of the game won't see the light of day. Spinks' Google difficulties appear to have started in late January when Terraria's official YouTube account was disabled. The Terraria Official Twitter account posted about it last week in a (unfortunately fruitless) effort to grab Google's attention. Explaining the scale of the issue, Spinks wrote: "My phone has lost access to thousands of dollars of apps on @GooglePlay. I had just bought LOTR 4K and can't finish it. My @googledrive data is completely gone. I can't access my @YouTube channel. The worst of all is losing access to my @gmail address of over 15 years." [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/terraria-first-two-nights-in-terraria-tutorial-video"] Back in 2011, we awarded Terraria on PC a 9/10 review, saying, "This devious little indie sandbox title borrows so many ideas from Notch's game that it essentially is Minecraft in 2D, but it also beefs up the familiar gameplay in exciting ways." The game has since come to a dozen more platforms, but it seems Stadia won't join that list. In other Google Stadia news, Google recently shut down all of its internal games studios, affecting approximately 150 employees. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

source https://www.ign.com/articles/terraria-on-stadia-canceled-after-developer-is-locked-out-of-google-accounts