I'll just go ahead and say that, no, they didn't. At best, sales were unaffected. Worst case scenario, and the most likely, is that the average potential customer was repulsed by this degeneracy. The fact is most people who wanted Baldur's Gate III have already bought it. If Larian was hoping to push more copies, they needed to do better. "What about it moving up on the Top Sellers list?" That list is paid for by sponsorships by the developers and publishers of games on said list.
I'll just go ahead and say that, no, they didn't. At best, sales were unaffected. Worst case scenario, and the most likely, is that the average potential customer was repulsed by this degeneracy. The fact is most people who wanted Baldur's Gate III have already bought it. If Larian was hoping to push more copies, they needed to do better. "What about it moving up on the Top Sellers list?" That list is paid for by sponsorships by the developers and publishers of games on said list.