There are some examples of parent publishers with less-than-exemplary reputations simply letting successful child studios/publishers do their thing. Activision,

There are some examples of parent publishers with less-than-exemplary reputations simply letting successful child studios/publishers do their thing. Activision, for example, owns Blizzard, but plays fairly hands-off with managing them. My understanding is that Ubisoft (based in France) gives a similar amount of independence to its subsidiary Montreal studio. On the flipside, I'm not sure about how EA manages all its subsidiaries. There was a apparently a lot of political pressure on Bioware to adopt EA's Frostbite engine leading to all sorts of headache in the development of Mass Effect Andromeda. And after all that dust settled, now there is no more Mass Effect for the time being. You can read more here: https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428 https://kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-t...