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Yes because a Chinese multinational corporation is going to any better...
Not every big conglomerate is just a relentless fuckup machine. Baldur's Gate 3 was made by (edit: ~~a Tencent subsidiary~~) a studio partly owned by Tencent. I'm not saying they won't fuck it up, just that there's no reason to assume out of the gate that they automatically will. And, it's legitimately a little hard to see them doing worse than Hasbro has been so far.
Tencent has a minority stake in Larian. That's very different from being wholly owned and managed by them.
And Tencent has a minority stake in, like, every functioning software company that's ever done an investment funding around at this point. They make it a point to diversify their holdings across basically the entire software industry at this point.
They're fairly hands-off in those endeavours, since they're doing it to protect themselves against shifts in the market.
Their in-house made stuff, though, is... Well, let's just say it's efficiently monetized.