They shouldn't give him a penny. Him being a dumbass isn't their fault or problem. If somebody sold you a car for $500 and then a few years later came back asking for another $2k for the car they already sold you you'd just laugh at them and tell them to fuck off, CDPR should do the same.

He should have either made sure royalties were part of the initial deal, or at the very least made it only valid for a limited time, so if the games were succesful then CDPR would eventually have to re-negotiate to continue making them and then he could get more money or a cut of future sales. He screwed up though.

Ka-pi96 said: So he gave them the rights to make Witcher games, permanently, for only a one time payment of 9.5k? What an idiot

The opposite will happen to me in some years.

I'll approach Sony with a million dollars for them to make a new LoD for a percentage of the series (yes, series!) sales.

They'll tell me: lol, fine, we'll accept your money you idiot.

10 years after that I'll be a billionaire.

Legally they owe him nothing, but I guess I'm just an overly nice guy. CDP has made hundreds of millions off of a franchise that they only paid him a paltry $9,500 for the rights to. Sure it is his own fault for making such a bad deal, but he created this fantastic franchise and CD Projekt would never have found their current enormous success without the IP that he created. Even though they owe him nothing, it would be a nice gesture of goodwill on their part to at least offer him a decent amount of CDP stock, so that he can make some money off of future Witcher games and such. 

Under Polish law, he has a case sadly. It looks like this will be settled out of court or he will win. Under Polish law he is still entitled to more money.

Sounds like Polish law is terrible then. If he signed a contract giving them lifetime Witcher game rights like CD Projekt claims, they should owe him nothing. 

How "sadly"? How is modern Western IP norms some universal natural ethics?
If Western companies use courts to enforce law to the hilt to their benefit, what is problem with him using courts to enforce Polish law?
People are so indoctrinated to idea of law working in favor of corporations and saavy insiders, they can't comprehend when law protects un-savvy citizen.
The law annulling contract features which are deemed societally unacceptabe is routine procedure, regardless of specific details here.
(I'm saying this not as any fan of Polish government, whose jingoism of current and predecessor governments is not my cup of tea)

I'd be curious if perhap a Polish poster could clarify better the terms of the dispute.
It sounds like there isn't any case for very 1st game, and possibly not the other already made ones...
But the law would enable him to end contract applicability to potential games? (CDPR then having choice to negotiate anew, or not make them)

A billionaire in possesion of a massive dragoon empire.

Under Polish law, he has a case sadly. It looks like this will be settled out of court or he will win.

Utter BS, but it does not matter that he sold it for a lump sum if the IP made vastly more than what he sold it for. Under Polish law he is still entitled to more money.

I'm dubious of that claim personally. If that was true, he would have sued them when they announced Witcher 2 without his permission. But yeah, I agree that CDP should try and settle this amicably, if they let this go to court and he wins back the game rights from them, it kills our chances of Witcher 4, which would leave me gutted, I need Witcher 4 with Ciri as the main character so badly.