Andrzej Sapkowski wants 16 mil from CD Project Red

[SammyGiireal]

shikamaru317 said:

SammyGiireal said:

I partially agree with this, without CDprojekt Witcher doesn't grow to world wide game, but the without the books you don't have the universe or characters either. You were expecting a guy who probably never played a videogame 20 years  ago and was in probable financial trouble to predict that the game was going to be as successful as it was a decade and half later after its third iteration? The dude is a writer not an analyst. The 16 mil are a tad excessive. But a 5 mil settlement of some sort with a small percentage of future sells for example is not. Writers should learn from this mess to always demand royalties along with some money upfront.

On a personal level, yeah, I'd go ahead and offer him like 1 or 2%, the 6% he is asking for is just too much since he is the one that made the mistake (I mean how did he seriously think that $9,500 in cash was more valuable than a percentage back then?), or offer him stock in CD Projekt at least, so he can make some money off of their future endeavors (they stand to make alot of money from Cyberpunk and Witcher 4, GOG.com, etc.). But business is business, CD Projekt may decide that the money is better spent developing future games rather than just giving it away to him. 

I guess in court we will see the original terms and stuff. But I am Pretty sure thait in1998 he didn't think much of CDPROJEKT. 9.5 K was a pretty paltry offering. He must have been broke and again at that time CDProjekt wasn't close to what it is today. It will be an interesting case in court. He did write the thing so perhaps he is finally getting solid advice in terms of his lawyers .