Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

Post by sudomakeup » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 7:36 PM UTC

turbinerneiter wrote: post #82

As long as the cost of false-positives is lower than the cost of human support staff, they will keep doing this stuff. Millions of pages of EULA, but not a single line in there to protect the user? No right to get your data once banned? No right to appeal or even be informed about the reasons? Just imagine if Google ran the Justice system! They would suspend peoples drivers licenses without their knowledge and then t…

Post by gowld » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 7:37 PM UTC

sitkack wrote: post #494

technofiend wrote: post #486

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There needs to be a raft of community managers @ Google handling these sort of failures, including some senior ones to deal with escalations of this kind. They need this to counter the phalanx of people who enjoy spending their time trashing google. Just check reddit's ProjectFi or Stadia subgroups to see people who've made it their life's work to downvote every thread and response in those forums and spew vitriol at…

I am not trying to write a post for ABoringDystopia, but I would wager that the vast majority of folks with banned accounts that actually want them back would just pay, either for the review or just to get unblocked. Question, does take-out still work with a banned account?

Post by dannyr » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 7:38 PM UTC

eldavido wrote: post #735

jennyyang wrote: post #658

We need regulations to enforce adequate customer service and SLAs in these huge companies. Google is getting away with this behavior because of their monopolistic behavior. If they had competition, they would be spending billions on customer support, but because they have a monopoly, they can get away with having virtually none. This is their way of saving money and taking advantage of their monopoly. It's a shadow v…

No! What we need is competition and choice to ensure companies are responsive to what people want. I can't, for the life of me, understand why people think "regulation" will magic away all our problems. Here's what happens: a lengthy political process results in a bunch of laws getting passed. The large companies who have enough skin in the game to care send their lobbyists, who ensure the outcome of the process does…

Post by whomst » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 7:39 PM UTC

wwweston wrote: post #743

eldavido wrote: post #735

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No! What we need is competition and choice to ensure companies are responsive to what people want. I can't, for the life of me, understand why people think "regulation" will magic away all our problems. Here's what happens: a lengthy political process results in a bunch of laws getting passed. The large companies who have enough skin in the game to care send their lobbyists, who ensure the outcome of the process does…

Complaining about "regulation" in general is as insightful as complaining about code in general, and for pretty much the same reasons. > What we need is competition, not just some abstract thing called "regulation". If there isn't competition, how do you plan to get it, short of policy to encourage it (aka regulation)?

Post by falcolas » Mon, Feb 08, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

koheripbal wrote: post #766

dleslie wrote: post #747

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And then the competitors _tacitly_ collude and form an oligopoly, using their combined market power to consume small competitors and collectively reduce product quality. The unregulated free market makes minnows of us all for the whales to feed upon.

This is obviously not true in a majority of industries