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Google made a few mistakes with its Stadia cloud gaming service. Maybe more than a few. Okay, it made a lot of promises it didn’t keep and said many things that look pretty laughable in hindsight and pulled the rug out from under its indie developers. We did our best to warn you!

And yet, I don’t think Stadia will be remembered poorly now it’s gone — because in the end, Google did right by its customers. Pay attention, rival companies: this is how you shut down service right.

I can’t remember a company ever trying so hard to erase its mistakes: Stadia users got full hardware and software refunds, save game transfers, even a final celebratory test game they could play on the eve of the shutdown. They were warned over three months in advance so they could finish their games, and Google gave Stadia Pro subscribers those last three months for free. It didn’t even ask them to return the hardware in exchange for those refunds — and Google added a much-requested Bluetooth mode to the controller at the last minute, so people will hopefully reuse ‘em instead of chucking ‘em into landfills.