[deserialized]

Just because the cloud exists doesn't mean you wrote your backend in such a way that it is fully disentangled from the rest of the application, nor that it was containerized and handed off to an orchestration engine which was properly configured to scale out horizontally across dynamically provisioned nodes.

The games industry specifically has a chip on its shoulder with regards to linux and scaling as well as a general refusal to NOT poorly reinvent every wheel in C++ inside their windows-only desktop client.

Otherwise you wouldn't see goofy shit like Square Enix halting sales of their game because they couldnt scale their snowflake out to general-purpose servers