Seriously, people, can you stop with these poor excuses?
There was virtually no "risk" with the PC port. With 92K customers who already signed a petition asking for the game plus all those occasional purchases, anything just remotely competent was going to break even without breaking a sweat.
Stop justifying corporate idiocy. They didn't "save money" doing what they did.
They simply sunk their own ship.
Yeah, there's being greedy and there's being far too fucking greedy.