Well, as other people have said, it looks like they were preparing to sell Reddit, or take it public, or whatever, and they wanted to make it look as profitable and purchaseable as possible.

The end result is the same, but the reasoning is a bit different.

Anyhow, if that’s true, I dare say they’ve achieved the opposite result now.

It’s also the no 1 best selling video game of all time, by a sizable margin, so it would be a big deal regardless.