This move came as a surprise to a lot of game developers who were busy creating exclusive games for the platform and learned about the move online, just like all the users who had actually paid for the service and the special controller kit. The company had even made the gamers pay for the games themselves, even though they would not actually own them. Thankfully, the company has announced that they will be giving refunds to all the users for all the purchases they made through the Google Store.
Unfortunately, the developers are still stuck with unfinished games, which they now have to port to other platforms and services if they want to get any return for all their hard work. We don't know what will happen to all the in-house developers that were hired by the company itself to help develop and maintain the platform, but hopes are that they, too, will be given some other opportunities or compensation to cover the loss of work.
This isn't the first time that Google has unceremoniously dumped seemingly important projects and services out of the blue. In fact, there are over 200 such projects, which were announced with much fanfare, and then eventually forgotten with time. This is why a lot of people were already sceptical about the future of this service ever since it was first announced. A sentiment which ironically is being blamed for the lacklustre performance of the service as part of the reason the company decided to shut it down. Users who still want to experience cloud gaming can instead opt for one of the other popular game streaming services, like the Xbox Game Pass, Playstation Plus and NVIDIA GeForce Now.
