He came up with an idea for a new game during a game jam in 2012. He believed in making indie titles, like the Insaniquarium game he made before tackling PvZ. Fan left EA because he didn’t believe in making free-to-play games with microtransactions. Rather, Fan decided that he wanted to continue working on independent titles. He chose not to create a sequel to the game. EA also spun up its Garden Warfare series of shooters, with a new one coming this year.īut after creating PvZ, its creator stepped back. Zombies have been sold or downloaded in its lifetime, but it noted in 2013 that the sequel was downloaded more than 25 million times. And it was also one of the reasons that EA paid more than $750 million to acquire PopCap Games in 2011.ĮA hasn’t tallied how many copies Plants vs.
