It took them 9 months to negotiate with Activision and they tried things with every possible major publisher under the sun. They seem to have gotten a sweet dea

It took them 9 months to negotiate with Activision and they tried things with every possible major publisher under the sun. They seem to have gotten a sweet deal too (keep your own IP, remain independent, publisher basically just prints discs and ships them to the stores). They were going to have to pick one eventually anyways, so they might as well do it during the planning stages so they're not ending up building something that no publisher is going to acquiesce to.