Came across this today, it has quite the relevance to the BES discussion.  Torchia giving a talk about his experiences with DayZ.  He talks alot about BES and the troubles they've had outsourcing work to them. There apparently were lots and lots of problems.   I've cued this video up to the question portion at the end.  Skip back to about 17 minutes in to hear his Outsourcing 101 discussion.  It seems there was a lot of issues with BI acquiring these smaller studios.  I think you'll find it very informative about what has been going on behind the scenes.   https://youtu.be/5qJEBj9mfxg?t=42m43s