I'm sure a lot of the people who said they were going to boycott it did boycott it. But a boycott was never going to work for this game. The IP alone meant it was going to sell 10M+ copies, even if it was absolutely terrible.
I don't know what "woke" means here. I was under the impression that it's synonymous to "the others" in the artificially instigated drama between the US political parties.
I'm not from the US, so I guess, I would be "the others" in some sense, but I have no idea, if I specifically count towards the implied-evil others here.