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Machiavellian said: The Dev make the game and is required to pay EA back the funded money (with some sauce on it like a loan). Here is a quote from Carmack when they used EA to publish their game |
It would appear you don't know what publishing is, because that's not unique to EA Partners at all. That's how most publishing deals work. The publisher typically makes all of their money back before the developer starts seeing any royalties. The difference is that EA Partners is a program for external developers that allows those developers to retain ownership of the IP. But in the event that EA is funding the actual development of the game (as they are in this case) odds are that they have ownership of the games created under the contract. As opposed to, say, Valve's games for EA Partners which really were just a retail distribution deal and left EA with no ownership of anything.
