m0ney said:
Well it was 1998 and Poland, it had no (legal) video game market, gamers were buying pirated PC games for 5 usd a piece, 10k usd looked like a great deal for back then and there. |
I think he should get a percentage, not a big one since he originally screwed up. But most writers are actually in debt, as you point out it was 1998, he had no freaking idea how far the video game market was going to go and grow into. He was also probably broke. Most of these guys don't have an pro advisor telling them what to do. This happens in the music industry all the time at least in Latin America, plenty of hit song writers that took that enticing 3k us dollars and didnt get any royalties and now live in poverty. Big artists know exactly how those writers will end up and they don't care. CDproject at least seemed like it acted on Goodwill by offering royalties. He should get his royalties anyways as I believe all writers should .
