The Google Play team came through and made our flagship their showcase — install it, look, this is what fully cross-play 4K looks like without three hundred engineers behind it. Five stars, real admiration. But all of it was in service of Google Play Games for PC: a product their own company barely resourced, never made performant, and plainly didn’t believe could dent the PC market. So we were the proudest exhibit in a hall nobody upstairs meant to keep open. The people on the ground loved the game. The institution paying them had already moved on. Applause from the field is not commitment from the firm — and being the best thing on a neglected platform is still being on a neglected platform.