Unlikely, square enix is a jap publisher their relationship to western wokeness is incidental.
Gaming market has boomed but studios take years to make games, they are betting an as of yet unfinished or unreleased game will have mass appeal like other similarly sized studios and publishers have had and it was cheap to buy SE because they were between major releases.
$300M isn't just cheap. It's a bankruptcy sale.
The rights to their IP should be worth ten times that much, hell even in their current sorry state their brand name should be worth about that much alone.
I'm surprised Sony didn't buy them if they were going so cheap.
I invested in Embracer after this. I had seen that they bought Gearbox, which people complain is woke, too. Was waiting for a good time. These are still games that I want to play. People are talking about them, which is good.
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