[ThrowawayR2]

> Coming out with a truly cross platform game that has Linux as a first class citizen would buy tremendous free publicity.

This particular game (Planetary Annihilation) was designed with Linux support in mind from the very beginning; as the person who wrote the tweets notes, he and numerous others within the company were huge proponents of supporting Linux. As events proved, it didn't work out for them.

[michaelmrose]

They later admitted they overstated this issue and that their problems were self caused.