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HoloDust said:

JEMC said:

The Witcher writer, Andrzej Sapkowski, demands $16 million from CD Projekt RED
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-witcher-writer-andrzej-sapkowski-demands-16-million-from-cd-projekt-red/
It appears that the writer of The Witcher books, Andrzej Sapkowski, is demanding $16 million from CD Projekt RED, beyond what had been contractually agreed upon contract. From the looks of it, Sapkowski never believed that The Witcher games would be such a success and as such, he did not originally agreed for a percentage of CD Projekt RED’s profits. Instead, he sold the rights for a video-game for a fixed sum. However, and now that these games have sold millions, the writer wants a piece of that cake.

I knew from before Sapkowski is a bit of a dick when it comes to CDPR, but I had no idea he's a bit stupid as well - not only their games made him famous worldwide, although he keeps driveling how he probably lost some of the readership who think his books are game2book adaptations, but he refused to take percent and instead opted for fixed sum, and now he "demands" royalties.

Well, it will be interesting to see if his claims that they only had a deal for the first game are true or not.

I think this would have been a terrible oversight from CDP Red, but anything is possible.