# Stadia

## Shutdown Notice

> I don't think most people realize just how sudden these news/changes came.
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> The team working on updates for the web experience (both mobile and desktop) just pushed updates (a new homescreen) to the web version to be rolled out *a day* before this was made public — it's still rolling out. There's even more updates including new features that would've been released in the future months, with the team working as usual — nobody in the Stadia team including community managers, project management and more knew anything about this change **until less than an hour before it went public**. I mean, [it's just a meeting, isn't it?](https://twitter.com/system32eth/status/1575689371403309056)
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>Publishers, devs and even partnered studios got no notice either. Size doesn't matter here: The day it was announced, Ubisoft was still updating infos (and Stadia references for releases) about multiple planned releases for Q1/Q2 next year.
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>Wired Production tweeted about the upcoming Stadia Pro titles just before the announcement went live and Clockwork Origins was in an interview with the german talkshow Cloudplay less than a week ago, talking about the future of his games on Stadia.
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>Paratope, the team behind Skyclimbers, which was part of the Stadia Makers program and heavily funded by community members, [wasn't aware of the service going down either](https://twitter.com/Para_tope/status/1575528671053586433).
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>Even Bungie, who was heavily in contact with Google (and the dev team helping them on the Destiny 2 port for over half a year) [knew nothing about this beforehand](https://dotesports.com/destiny/news/bungie-breaks-silence-on-google-stadias-collapse-as-the-gaming-industry-reacts-to-shock-closure).
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>Devs, publishers, the community and everyone else did what they could, but that simply wasn't enough to stop Phil Harrison — the person in charge — to fuck up **[yet another entry in the gaming history](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/luwjan/has_phil_harrison_had_any_success_in_the_gaming/)**.

[Source](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/xt1m2l/comment/iqoz3ia/?context=3)