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The co-creator of Terraria canceled the game’s development for Google Stadia after a three-week stint in which he was inexplicably locked down on all his Google accounts.
Andrew Spinks gave the ultimatum early Monday, after receiving no response from Google from YouTube excluded him from his account in mid-January. The lockdown also cost Spinks access to apps he bought from Google Stadia, erased data he stored in Google Drive, and terminated a Gmail account he has used for over 15 years.
I did absolutely nothing to violate your terms of service, so I can’t take that other than deciding to burn this bridge down. Consider it burnt. #Terraria for @GoogleStadia is canceled. My business will no longer support any of your platforms in the future.
– Andrew Spinks (@Demilogic) February 8, 2021
Spinks said he brought this to Google’s attention around Jan. 16 and the company “hadn’t done anything but give me the solution” since then. The official Twitter account of the game tried to draw YouTube’s attention to the issue in January, with no help coming.
Two days ago, fans noted that Terraria had obtained a rating and a release date for Google Stadia from the European rating agency PEGI. The only official word that Terraria was in the works for the streaming platform came with Spinks’ cancellation announcement on Monday.
Polygon reached out to a representative from Google Stadia for a response to the situation, including an explanation of why Spinks was allegedly locked out of his accounts in the first place.
Terraria was one of the games available when Google launched its Google Play Pass, essentially the Android version of Apple Arcade, in fall 2019. Terraria, published by 505 Games, is still available on the Google Play Store.
On February 1, Google announced it was shutting down its development studio Stadia Games and Entertainment, leaving Stadia as a strictly third-party gaming platform. Stadia was launched in November 2019. Currently there are around 140 games available for the service.
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