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I wonder if there is a mentality that ‘meh these are just game saves, big whoop’ as opposed to say Google docs. Hopefully data is data.

tetha 4y ago
It would be a rather dangerous precedent if they don't care about the save games. On some games, the world / game save file can have hundreds of hours invested into it. If they were just like "well sucks, we might lose it, eh", it'd say something about using stadia.
- kadoban 4y ago
  > it'd say something about using stadia. It'd say that Google is not serious about Stadia, long-term. Which was already known when they announced it for the first time, so not a lot of loss there. This is very likely just a bug they'll fix soon though, at least I certainly hope so for the players' sakes.
- smueller1234 4y ago
  I can tell you that the stadia team don't look at it like that at all. I've worked on storage, I know their storage system design, and I've discussed it with the SRE team in the past. I'm not involved in any of the ongoing and wouldn't comment on it. Came here to assert that this team is neither stupid nor callous.
  - influx 4y ago
    Ok, when this issue was escalated did that team get paged in to work on a potential data loss issue? If not, I’m concerned. I’ve worked at storage at scale too, and this is standard practice.
- jsemrau 4y ago
  Would be a big red flag if Stadia would be losing save games. If I'd have invested 100+ hours into a game and it would be lost-> seriously annoyed.
avereveard 4y ago
Hopefully they just waiting for the support team timezone and it's just a matter of clicking restore on their storage at whatever point in time prior to the erasure These are paying customers after all, surely they won't go around without backups. Imagine the image damage from something like that.
- meetups323 4y ago
  > support team timezone Profit generating services at FAANG's pay good money for engineers to be woken up in the middle of the night to fix whatever problems might arise. It's been over 24 hours. There is a serious bug, and the backups aren't working as expected. Hugs to the SRE's.
RachelF 4y ago
Take a look on the Google Docs/Drive support forums. Google loses people's data quite often.

tetha 4y ago

It would be a rather dangerous precedent if they don't care about the save games. On some games, the world / game save file can have hundreds of hours invested into it. If they were just like "well sucks, we might lose it, eh", it'd say something about using stadia.

kadoban 4y ago
> it'd say something about using stadia. It'd say that Google is not serious about Stadia, long-term. Which was already known when they announced it for the first time, so not a lot of loss there. This is very likely just a bug they'll fix soon though, at least I certainly hope so for the players' sakes.
smueller1234 4y ago
I can tell you that the stadia team don't look at it like that at all. I've worked on storage, I know their storage system design, and I've discussed it with the SRE team in the past. I'm not involved in any of the ongoing and wouldn't comment on it. Came here to assert that this team is neither stupid nor callous.
- influx 4y ago
  Ok, when this issue was escalated did that team get paged in to work on a potential data loss issue? If not, I’m concerned. I’ve worked at storage at scale too, and this is standard practice.
jsemrau 4y ago
Would be a big red flag if Stadia would be losing save games. If I'd have invested 100+ hours into a game and it would be lost-> seriously annoyed.

avereveard 4y ago

Hopefully they just waiting for the support team timezone and it's just a matter of clicking restore on their storage at whatever point in time prior to the erasure These are paying customers after all, surely they won't go around without backups. Imagine the image damage from something like that.

meetups323 4y ago
> support team timezone Profit generating services at FAANG's pay good money for engineers to be woken up in the middle of the night to fix whatever problems might arise. It's been over 24 hours. There is a serious bug, and the backups aren't working as expected. Hugs to the SRE's.

RachelF 4y ago

Take a look on the Google Docs/Drive support forums. Google loses people's data quite often.