Cliff Harris

How can anyone be so petty as to slag off introversion because they didnt get publisher interest?
Have you SEEN some of the crap that publishers DO put on shelves?
Darwinia wasn't an established genre or a sequel and had no big name behind it. therefore the publishers marketing dept would need to be good at their jobs, and having worked (in previous jobs) alongside BIG publishers marketing depts, i can assure you, those guys are idiots.
I very much doubt the IV guys care that there is no publisher interest. I sell games direct like they do, and take 90% of the sale price, whereas with retail, you are likely to get maybe 10-20%, and zero contact with the customers. I doubt any of the IV guys cry themselves to sleep over not having made Eidos shareholders any richer.
Personally, I didn't like Darwinia, I didnt like the interface, but I know a load of people who loved it, and I have a lot of respect for their game design style.
The world needs more companies like IV, and less big developer/publisher fanboys.
And I need to remember to enter my poxy games in the IGF!