I don't follow your logic. CDPR came to him to buy the rights to make games based off the property. He had nothing to lose, all to gain. He could have said no. They offered him royalties, he opted not to and asked for a cash sum. Your whole argument is "come on guy, be a friend". Cdpr has been working on their next big title full blown for multiple years now, giving away money is not a smart business move when you've been spending money to sustain development.
If the courts of Poland find that he's entitled to more then that's that, the law of the land called for it. But be a good friend, be my guy is not the basis to give him more when at the time of the deal both sides of the deal got what they wanted, one who didn't believe in the medium and got the sum of money he wanted, the other paying what was a lot of money for them and a fairly big risk as they were betting a lot on the game based off this franchise.
He had everything to loose if he gave them the rights in exchange of some royalties he could have believed would never come. CDPR was nothing back then. Everyone is acting as if he sold the right to the CDPR that made Witcher 3 and this is not true. They both took risks.
Of course CDPR owes him nothing, but they became all they are using his properties. So again I think it would be good of them to just give him something, not 16 million that is too much but throw a bone to the guy that created the characters that made all of their thing possible.
Also some of the post seem to say he has a right to sue them based on the contract so there's that.
And again 9.5k is not a lot of a game's budget. Even back in 2007.
Again, they offered him royalties. He declined because he thought the games would fail. Hindsight and all that. With what little information we have, CDPR was extremely fair when acquiring the IP. No one fucked anyone over. If they CHOOSE to throw some cash his way, cool. If not, that's cool too. They owe him jack shit.
And he had every right to believe an unproven game developer would fail to deliver on the game and royalties.
I am not saying anyone fucked anyone, though some in this thread seem to think the author fucked CDPR by asking them for 9.5k for a license when even that seems like very little for it.
I am only saying it would be cool for them to throw him a bone, not a 16 million bone, but something since his property has made them hundreds of million. People here acting like "fuck this guy" rub me the wrong way. One can argue that a game we love and a studio we also love would not be in the same spot in 2018 if not for this deal.
Does he require it? Nope, but it would be really nice that they gave him something.
