In recent news ( ref ) in order to survive a studios is looking for a publisher to buy them out. For obvious reasons, people around here weren’t too happy to hear that Ubisoft might be interested in acquiring them. This got me thinking: when a former AAA studio goes indie, it stops really being what it was; best of luck to them, but the studio they once were is effectively gone. I strongly prefer indie studios, yet it makes me wonder what publisher would be decent one to have both money power to acquiring and maintaining AAA studios while still being decent on (ie: I doubt Annapurna and alike have such kind of money). After all, not everyone can be Hideo Kojima, essentially operating as an indie-AAA hybrid where the studio educates its own publishers.