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It's deep trolling, as it doesn't even do Linux any favors. Alternative slogan; "Port your game to GNU/Linux! Gain less than 1% players and no revenue while increasing your maintenance cost in ways you couldn't imagine. Try to reverse the decision without too much bad PR or lose all your established customers, then watch it all die. Educate yourself about GNU/Linux!".

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Valve probably ported their stuff to Linux as a hedge against the Windows and Mac App Stores. It barely even matters if people use it or not; they just need a way to convince Microsoft and Apple that breaking Steam isn't in their best interests.

Could also be a niche revenue stream in future if they starting build it now: A few old games (and modern ones) run better on Linux via Valve's work than they do windows, that mean's Valve can still sell them.

Just from doing a little bit of research, the problem there seems to be that the netcode in that game is pretty old and has a lot of unfixed bugs that trolls are taking advantage of, not really anything to do with Linux. If they don't want to pay people to fix it, maybe they can open source the server code so someone else can fix the bugs?

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