yeah i'm absolutely sureYou sure about it? Seems to me it's clearly done so THQ Nordic AB can differentiate itself from THQ Nordic GmbH.
Renaming the holding company so they don't get associated with Nazis is pretty understandable.
1. a big holding company changing its name to distance itself from a fully owned subsidiary makes little to no sense, specially when they're not doing any immediate business with consumers where their name is seen. it would have made sense to change the name of THQ nordic, the publisher, not THQ nordic, the holding company.
2. if this is something done because of the controversy, it makes little to no sense to do it now, months after the actual AMA happened. while back then it would have been understandable since it was being reported everywhere, now in august of 2019 the whole thing has pretty much died down everywhere except on era. you don't see it being mentioned on any gaming website, and they're doing business as usual in all the big conventions (E3, gamescon, etc) without any journalists bringing it up. to think that they're changing their name because the controversy is constantly brought up in one single gaming forum is absurd.
3. it makes sense for them to change their name anyway because while they started as the parent company for THQ nordic games, they're a much bigger company now with several big subsidiaries so it makes sense not to have the same name as one of their many subsidiaries
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4. a name change was already in the planning before the incident