Google Stadia made news this month when it announced it was shutting down its original first party production house, and would instead focus on third party partnerships for the service going forward.

But one of those may be on the rocks, according to a recent thread from Terraria creator Andrew “@Demilogic” Spinks.

In a thread posted late last night, Spinks lamented about how he has been locked out of his Google Account for three weeks now with no resolution in sight, and no additional help given that he is partnering with Google for a Stadia release of Terraria.

Spinks concludes that his problems stem from Google trying to “burn a bridge,” and if that’s the way it’s going to be, he says, he’s cancelling the Stadia release of Terraria, as he “will not be involved with a corporation that values their customers and partners so little. Doing business with you is a liability.”

It’s unclear if Spinks Google Account issues have to do with Google targeting him in some way, as losing access to a Google account is notoriously hard to sort through and resolve at baseline. But Google has not yet commented on the situation, and it’s unknown if Spinks could change his mind if the issue is resolved.

Some fans are pushing back against Spinks, saying that it will mainly be fans, not Google, that’s punished if Terraria does not come to Stadia, but this all speaks to a larger problem with Stadia outside of this specific situation. The recent closure of their first party studio has made even die-hard Stadia fans question Google’s overall commitment to the platform. If they can shut down a massive game development studio they created just like that, whose to say they may not walk away from the entire concept in a year or two? This has created a hesitancy among consumers who do not want to amass a Stadia games library for a platform that could very well not exist in the future. And it also may have some developers rethinking what amount of energy they want to devote to Stadia releases of their games, even if they’re not having active issues like Spinks here.

We’ll have to see what becomes of Spinks’ situation now that it’s gaining traction. Again, it’s not clear if Spinks’ account was somehow compromised, or if Google itself terminated it for some reason, either by mistake or on purpose, as he alleges. More to come, but it’s a strange situation, and no doubt not the headline Stadia needs right now.

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