The clock is still ticking. As we already told you in September, Google Stadia will close its doors next January 18in less than a month. At that point, Google will “shut down” the servers (I put that in quotes because they will actually and in all likelihood reassign those machines to other functions) and, mind you, all your content will be lost. yes, like tears in the rain. We will not go back to analyze what happened, as we have already done this on previous occasions, now (since September actually) is the time to try to reduce the impact of this closure on service users.

In this regard, Google has from the beginning committed to a really generous refund policy, as it refunds not only the amounts paid for games, but also purchases of hardware related to the service that will not be refunded, such as the Stadia controller and Chromecasts that were part of some special packages , like the one the company offered at the launch of Cyberpunk 2077.

A few weeks ago, Google started refunds and even returned, in this case by mistake, some of the fees paid for Stadia Pro, the subscription mode of the service. And we also know they’re working on making the controls’ Bluetooth connectivity usable with other apps and services. Something that all the users who have it want dearly because it is really a very good controller that doesn’t deserve to end up as a paperweight.

Now it seems that not all developers and distributors act in the same way. As we can read in The Verge, Ubisosft has started transferring titles from Google Stadia to Ubisoft+ without prior notice, a subscription service from a French developer and distributor. What has not been clarified, at least for the moment, is whether only the “ownership” of the games was transferred, or whether it was possible to transfer all the content associated with them, i.e. mainly saved games.

This migration also hasn’t been massive, at least for now, something we can relate to whether or not users had their Stadia and Ubisoft+ accounts linked, and it doesn’t seem to apply to all Ubisoft titles that were present in the game either. Stadia catalog. So, in the absence of communication in this regard from Google, Ubisoft, or both, it seems that this transfer system should be in the testing phase. Now, and since users who saw the titles displayed on their Ubisoft+ accounts did not receive a refund for their purchases, it seems likely that in this case Ubisoft decided to provide access to the game so that Google would not have to transfer the amount of their purchases. players.