Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25546049-20150620230906/@comment-7234182-20150622053924

TheGollddMAN wrote: Ballistic Planet wrote: Uh, I'm pretty sure EA just publishes it, PopCap is in charge of most if not all ingame design.

EDIT: And for anyone saying that Popcap is still the holy game design company it once was, or was corrupted by EA, you need to open your blind eyes.

Since EA publishes it, they hold bout 90% of PopCap's IP as their own. Whatever PopCap does in the game, they have to agree to the policies of EA that the game will in no way, undergo any changes without their consent. If a company publishes a game, they have more control over that game (even more than that of the developing studio).

I don't know how you came up with this stuff.

Developers (at least initially) own 100% of the IP for the games they make. However they may negotiate the IP ownership with the publisher so they also have a share of it. We have no way of knowing how much of the IP is owned by the developer vs. the publisher unless they tell us.

In the case of Popcap and EA, this is completely moot because PopCap is a wholly owned subsidiary of EA. This means EA owns 100% of the IP.