I'm aware of the publisher ownership, I still refuse to see EA studio failures as fault of EA. Outside of marketing and micro transactions, everything else is on the developer. So if a game like Andromeda has poor quality animations, tons of bugs, poor quality story, etc etc then I'm going to put it on biowares door. While I'm not "owned" by my boss, I am under contract. Is it my bosses fault if I'm a lazy employee who half assed the job? Just enough to get by but not good enough to Wow customers with my work. This is my take with bioware as I believe they're incompetent developers (Montreal at least but they're gone now) based off the changes they've done to their games. The thing is if EA wasn't blamed for everything then I probably wouldn't be in this stance, but it's an issue when it's always EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Microsofts fault rather than the guys making the game. Very rarely do I see "omg Bioware you for caked up" or "omg sledgehammer, you -blam!-ed up". It goes straight to the publisher. Understand that I'm not necessarily defending EA, I think they're cheap publishers looking for the most money possible with no regards to consumer happiness, but I do think scapegoating them is letting the developers off the hook.

And Marvel comics is just the publisher. They don’t make the comics. Because reasons.