John Justice, Product Manager at Stadia, leaves Google

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that 2021 has been a tumultuous year for Google Stadia. The ups included the promise of 100 new games (to add to his objective of 400 titles) including high level gets as FIFA 21, Outridersand Resident Evil Village. But it was the stockings that inevitably aroused the most interest and questions asked on Google’s commitment to its promising cloud gaming service. The latest news of a management departure from Stadia is likely to fuel fire over the future of the nascent gaming service.

Information reported that Stadia vice president and product manager John Justice has left Google. The executive was responsible for customer experience at Stadia and had previously spoken about his team’s tendency to make excessive promises on new features. In 2019, Google’s streaming service launched without a number of trendy social features, including State share and Crowd play. More recently, Stadia abruptly launched a Search bar for the web, one of its most requested features. Although Justice has yet to update his LinkedIn page, Google has confirmed his departure for 9to5Google.

Stadia’s problems date back to February, when the company decided to closed its internal studios in a shift towards third-party games. Shortly after the announcement, Google was forced to fix a critical bug in Journey to the wild planet on Stadia after its developers apparently moved due to the redesign

Taking into account Google the story of Kill services, The release of Justice may raise a few eyebrows. But that doesn’t mean Stadia is dead and buried, either, given his go out and all New Games which continue to arrive on the platform. Plus, the department still has plenty of executives to run the ship, including director of games Jack Buser and vice president and general manager Phil Harrison.