Stadia’s only first-party game was broken, and it seems I don’t know who can fix it

In the terrible confluence of destiny, the comedy adventure game “Journey to the Savage Planet” was released for Stadia on the same day Google closed its internal development studio, including the development of “Journey to the Savage Planet” developer Typhoon Studios. This coincidence leaves an annoying sequelae-the Stadia version of “Journey to the Barbarian Planet” contains a major error, but no one seems to know who can solve it. First pointed out by user lordubuntu on Reddit, Stadia’s journey of barbarians. Planet was released with an annoying bug that caused the start screen of the game to freeze, which seems to have happened based on responses from many players. When there are no local files to browse in the Stadia game, players cannot fix it themselves, which means they must seek official support channels for help.

Since Typhoon no longer exists, the developers of the game cannot implement the fix. As lordubuntu discovered, it seems that Savage Planet publisher 505 Games is responsible for both Google and Journey. The Google support response sent to lordubuntu asked them to contact the 505-but the 505 support message indicated that the company no longer has control of the game code and said that only Google can implement the fix.

The Stadia community manager stated on Reddit that Google “is actively working with our partners to find a solution,”

; but did not provide any information to tell who will be responsible for this, or whether it is possible. We have contacted 505 and Google for comments.

The result is that some players can only play games that they have no access to, and there is no current repair schedule. For newly released games, this is usually routine work, and to be a front-end developer, you must know that you can’t provide hard work for people who want to play the game. It must be very unpleasant.

Google closed its internal Stadia studio in early February 2021, affecting 150 employees. Since then, it promised to continue to provide more than 100 third-party games this year. Google, Id Software, and Bunge filed a class-action lawsuit alleging it misled customers about using the platform’s ability to display games in 4K resolution.

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