No, but they are a popular mainstream company for those who are less tech savvy. The more of these large companies that do this the more linux gamong will grow, developers will see a need to pay attention to making games work natively on linux. You can hate HP and still see this as a good thing.

Why the rush?

Dude thats crazy. I havent paod full price for a game in years, have a little patience and you can get a bunch more games for that much.

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Games are always on sale.