in what games does that happen? wasn’t aware…

1. this plays in their favor
2. clicking install in lutris rather than just downloading is not much more effort for the end user. Beit supported or not, a rather tech savvy group such as linux users can handle that obstacle and thus the numbers will not change drastically (just my asdumption)

Yes, and exactly that is reflected in the player numbers… By your and many others’ choice. They couldn’t care less about the reason.

I’m just saying that announcing their move ahead of time affects player numbers and they probably reported the player numbers after that announcement.

Well if you and assumingly many others decided to quit the game for good after that announcement, the number might be cherry picked, but not misleading as you said yourself that you are not going to play anymore.

In that case they also get what they want - solely Windows players.

I get your point, but that is only 50% of the article. 800 players simply don’t justify the effort of porting everything to Linux and risk more cheaters. Issues with cheaters affect the entire playerbase, not just those 800.

I’d like more Linux compatibility in large games as much as the next guy, but I get the justification not to do it.