The closure of Stadia caught developers and Google workers by surprise

A few days ago we broke the news of how Google closed Stadia, a closure that will become effective in January 2023 and that will give us time to collect our important data, cWhat would the saved games be like?through methods such as Google Takeout, a method that CD Projekt RED will use to rescue the saved game of Cyberpunk 2077.

However, it seems that this caught by surprise both ordinary users and Google developers and workers, because as we read in Ars Technica, There are several stories of these users that show how nobody knew anything until the last moment.

For example, Rebecca Heineman, CEO of Olde Sküül Games, explains that her team was working on a game for Stadia the same morning the cloud gaming platform’s shutdown was announced. The next day, they had a meeting with their Google representative, but she didn’t hesitate to call the same day.

The answer was, simply, that at least now he would know what a meeting of the full team to which said representative was summoned was coming, so definitely not even the Stadia team itself knew what was going to happen.

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