The Play Store Terraria is a different publisher. It's likely not his decision to make - and he shouldn't care considering that makes dealing with Google on that front is not his problem.

Also the revenue of the PC version should be roughly 4x all of the mobile versions combined (twice the amount of units sold, double the price).

Play Store isn't struggling for content. Removing terraria from it has zero impact on Google's bottom line. Stadia on the other hand very much is - removal(or cancellation) of an extremely popular indie game from the platform just accelerates its inevitable demise, something that will very much hit google's bottom line.

> Google has already decided to cancel Stadia

I believe you were going for hyperbole, but it reads more like misinformation instead. Please reconsider saying misleading shit like this, especially on HN.

Google closed one of their first party Stadia game development studios. They haven't decided to cancel Stadia as a whole yet, at least not publicly.

We've seen the playbook often enough. If you think they aren't going to close it down in 3 years, you're wasting money.

> "If you think they aren't going to close it down in 3 years, you're wasting money."

and

> "Google has already decided to cancel Stadia"

mean entirely different things. Of course people expect Stadia to get cancelled, but to claim they've already decided to cancel it is disinformation. It's a blatant lie. Don't spread fake news.

No, the fake news is Google having any plans to make anything out of Stadia. They don't just decide the night before to shut a project down. Google has a long history of leaving projects to fallow for months to years before finally admitting to everyone that they hadn't been putting resources in and are finally shutting the project down. It's insidious because, if you don't know the playbook, you might think you can count on the service to stick around. Look at everything VR they did: some great products that sat around for a full year before Google finally admitted they weren't doing anything more with it. I fully expect Google has plans already to shut down Stadia, but haven't told anyone yet because... I don't know why. Why do they ever just let this shit go on forever? Sims kind of face-saving or senior-engineer-retention program.

Stadia hasn't gotten a dollar from me, and won't. I absolutely think it'll be gone by then, but that's not the same thing as "has already decided to cancel".

That's actually an interesting point. If it is tied to the same Google account, will he still get money from apps sold through the play store? Can he pull an app from the play store if he cannot even log in?

He is a private person.

The games are published by an indie game studio.

Normally this is done over an separate, non personal, account. Sometimes even multiple non personal accounts for multiple products.

So RE-LOGIC's Google account should not have been affected.

Google Play / Android != Stadia

> Consider it burned. #Terraria for @GoogleStadia is canceled. My company will no longer support *any of your platforms* moving forward.

Emphasis mine.

But isn't Terraria "complete" in the sense that maybe besides some bug fix there won't really be any updates anymore? (But potential successors to Terraria??)

Also given that it's about "moving forward" I highly doubt they will revert any existing support.

But their next game(s) might very likely not ship on Google Play (but potential alternative App stores).

In the end I guess their main marked is anyway Steam followed by the consoles (Switch, Playstation, XBox).

I just wonder if they sell more on GooglePlay or on the Apple App Store?

The Android port appears to be published by 505 Games and Codeglue, and more recently Pipeworks, according to Wikipedia.

It's likely that the primary devs have little to no control of that port, including the ability (and possibly ip rights) to take it down.

Oh, right. Completely overlooked that bit.

I agree with you. It certainly will be interesting to see how this works out...