'Bridges burned': Terraria dev cancels Stadia port in retaliation to YouTube ban

Re-Logic, the developer of popular action-adventure sandbox game Terraria, has said it’s cancelled the game’s planned Stadia port in retaliation for Google banning its YouTube channel “without explanation”.The independent developer first alerted fans to its conflict with Google last month, when it claimed that it had lost access to its YouTube channel and associated Gmail account and was struggling to receive an explanation from Google.According to Re-Logic, it received an email warning it of a service violation on its YouTube channel and soon after the entire associated Google was disabled. It had not uploaded a public video to YouTube for three months, it said.YouTube’s Twitter support account did reply to the Terraria developer in January, advising it to follow steps listed on its website. However, the developer claimed this didn’t help.Terraria’s developer has cancelled its Stadia port.The disabled Google account links into many of Re-Logic’s business functions and as such the impact to the company is quite substantial, it said.On Monday, founder Andrew Spinks claimed that after 3 weeks of attempting to resolve the issue he would cancel Terraria for Stadia because “I can take this no other way than you deciding to burn this bridge.”He wrote on Twitter: “@Google…
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