Stadia version of Terraria is back in production

That's good for them, but I could randomly lose my own Google account at any time and I'm not famous enough to go viral and get on their customer service radar, so I'd be screwed and have no recourse.

Even if I was interested in game streaming, I'm not putting any more eggs in this basket.

What did Google offer him? Did they promise their won't arbitrarily ban anyone from now on? I doubt it.

He hasn't said anything on his tweeter about this.

This is another example of a random ban, only solved because the victim was able to make enough noise. On tech fora like HN, nobody is surprised. But even my non-techie friends are starting to notice this might happen to them too. Google is, in the public eye, slowly but surely turning from a rock solid partner into a rug that might be pulled from under your feet without any notice.

So I am wondering what the Google decision makers thinking about this Are they hoping they can sweep it under the rug? Do they even notice? Or is this a big-corporation case where the hind legs of the dinosaur have been kicked, but the brain is still to far away to notice?

I certainly would have done the same, but there is a certain level of disdain I have toward these people with their faux outrage that is manufactured solely to maneuver themselves into a position where they can grab more benefit. This person, when Google jerked him around, made a big deal about how bridges had been permanently burned, how he would never do business with Google because of how Google treated their customers. But now, not even a month later, it turns out all that talk was pure BS. Now that they got what was theirs, they are more than happy to do business with the company they supposedly would never do business with again. How can we expect Google to reform for the better when every single person who could remotely put pressure on Google to change their habits folds when money is dangled in front of them? How can we be angry at the pimps when we live in a society where everyone dreams of being a whore, even when they don't have to be? The Terraria people certainly have the financial means to excise Google yet they chose not to. What is the point of having fuck you money if you are too spineless to ever say fuck you? We live in a society where we expect more dignity from minimum wage employees with no power than we do from the people who have the means to say no. This rot pervades every level and institution in our society and I am terrified of the consequences at the end of the ride.