CD Projekt Red Won't Cave to Witcher Author's $16 Million Demand, But Resolution May Be Reached

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[YongYea]

Yeah, CD Projekt Red shouldn't cave to unreasonable demands that come after an agreement between both parties was established. It's nice to hear an amicable resolution might be on the table though.

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TOP PATRONS

[CIPHER]
- Ian Taylor
- Thelionsam
- Shawn Duane Cottrell
[BIG BOSS]
- BobaFett912
- Daniele Andreuzzi
- FreedTerror
- Solid Jake
- Vin Giorgio
[BOSS]
- Peter Vrba
- Time Dragonlord
- Alex Moretti
- Joe Hunt
- Patrick
- Zander Rose
- John A Perez
- Jonathan Ball
- Michael Redmond
[LEGENDARY]
- Mike Li
- Denver Harward
- FIFTHGRADE
- BattleBladeWar
- centrevez vectra
- Gerardo Andrade
- Ryan Daniel Brown
- Michael P. Reid
- David Doty
- Mark Taylor
- Prismat Dragoon
- Darien Cunningham
- Princess Stabbity
- Jake Betts

[lukezylik]

I'm Polish and I've read the Witcher series not to long ago in its native language.
He is an unbelievably amazing writer. He is very good at balancing multiple storylines with perfect pacing.
Too bad he's an out of touch asshole, and he doesn't deserve a single dollar from CDPR.
CD Projekt Red is a huge source of pride for us, they took out a huge loan from the Polish government a few years back because they refuse to release a bad game, or one with micro transactions.

[Excalibur-Sonic]

Dude you turned them down THREE times. And NOW you want a cut?

[evaristegalois]

"CD Projekt Red Won't Cave to Witcher Author's $16 Million Demand"

_Professionals have standards_

[spqninjapl]

I remember When He said that "He only hangs with intelligent people.. not gamers" and was bombing Witcher 1 and Witcher 2 Projects all the time saying that Games are weak media and He dont belive in this kind of showing the story to The People. I'm from polland and was interesting about all this "case".He's a nasty and greedy person.

[MaxBurnHeart]

Many Polish Witcher fans knows this: you read Sapkowski's books, but you do not listen to him.
Now you see why.

[VivianAckers]

I wouldn't have read the witcher books if I hadn't heard of the games

[TheSnikers]

He sold the product and now he want to change the price. Not quite how that works.

[bluegoose]

Good... the guy had his chance but chose a quick buck instead of having faith and confidence in the games. He's just a grumpy old guy who's salty he didn't get enough money

[SpookSkellington]

Why would they even pay him? They're completely in the right. They paid him what he asked and acquired the license legally.
If anything CDPR should sue him.

[TheTSense]

>be me
>write some storys, better than most but not world breaking
>some dude wants to build some toy or something on my ideas
>whatever
>offers me a share
>10% of nothing is still nothing
>take 9.000 bucks
>totally ripped this toymaker or whatever off, but don't feel to bad about it because it was his idea
>this toy or whatever becomes one of the best things in the world
>makes more money a year than i did my whole life
>gets more fans in a year than i did my whole life
>all my wat
>fans of the toy seek out the books they are based on
>sell more books
>make more money than i ever did
>iam world known now
>thanks to toymaker
>start throwing shit at him
>never got the 10% i turned down
>tell him to give me all his money or "bad things will happen"
>he fucking goes public with my words
>fuckfuckfuck.bookcover
>he beats my lawer senseless
>i get nothing and the world agrees i should get nothing
>what
>toymaker offers me some extras just because he can
>am i evil?
>no, the rest of the world is wrong

[Zathren]

If anyone reads the comment, never turn down royalties. Even if the product doesn't do well, regardless of what it is, receiving whatever amount of money for the the rest of your life is way better than a lump sum that could be more in the immediate.

[Soren]

I can understand being bitter when an adaptation of your own work becomes massively successful and you are getting zero royalties from it. But YOU are the one who turned down the offer.

The fact is, Sapkowski probably made more than his fair share by proxy of the fame that the games brought to his novels. Throwing a tantrum about the fact you made the wrong bet despite profiting off of the deal anyway is both greedy and childish.

[Dimitris]

This guy should have the character of Geralt as a role model. Instead he is Dijkstra.

[RmnGnzlz]

The fact that he wasn't interested in royalties and went for the cash instead shows he had no hope on the games and expected them to be a failure. So after they became huge now he wants to reap the rewards of CD Projekt Red's work? That's not how that works man.

[MukuonChannel]

The author is acting like a petulant, grumbling senile father who just can't accept that his child became more successful than he ever was. Instead of just being proud of him and followed his child's road to success, he chose to become an old fool who thinks the world owes him a favor. What a sad sad story.

[SuperChevelle]

He sold the rights for a lump sum instead of royalties because he didn't believe in the game would succeed . He doesn't deserve a Goddamned cent

[Dekomlev]

Why are book authors so weird? First J.K. Rowling and now this.

[Karricjusz]

I'm no lawyer, but in Poland the copyright law seems extremely fishy... I think it's stated that if the author's payment turns out to be very low compared to buyer's profits, it is in author's right to demand additional payment, no matter if it was a gamble or not.

Sapkowski definitely lost a lot of my respect with that case tho

[binbalebardac]

He turned down the royalties, then he tried to quietly blackmail them with bad PR threats. He got the payment he agreed to. I wouldn't give him a dime.