Well, while I don't believe they'd back-pedal w/o at least *some* data to support it, I do believe that this is their "low-effort" way of reducing some "attack-vectors".

However, in the end, they seem to be unable to signficantly reduce cheating anyways, so it's kind of moot.

The correct solution ofc is to properly develop anti-cheat and more secure code, but that requires effort, so just blaming/blocking Linux is their low-effort solution w/o really being a solution (thus harming Linux users w/o much benefit to Windows users).

Oh, and also, large-scale cheating almost always implies cheat-devs making a lot of money (which keeps them competitive in the "cat-and-mouse" game), so divesting some of their resources to investigating and suing the devs would be a better use of said resources.

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It's because they had their lawsuit against Zaiger dismissed: https://casetext.com/case/valve-corp-v-zaiger-llc [External Link]

They were suing Zaiger for abusing the arbitration system to do mass arbitrations, which was netting Zaiger a lot of money in fees.

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Valve-associated people having to once again fix FreeDesktop's terrible development.

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"Shouldn't need a calculator" as if the conversion ratio wasn't absolutely trivial.

And from that point alone, they stretch it out into buzz-words about "Companies manipulating children to spend money", as if having a (trivial) conversion step was the root of the issue.

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