Exactly my thoughts. If you really love the games (that are basically good because the NPCs, lore and stories) you must love Sapkowski's work too, regardless of his opinion about other medium.
Exactly this. It was always completely reasonable for him to ask for more money. The third game especially is based so heavily upon his writing that it was wrong for him to see nothing from it.
Were they? Witcher 1 was made after all five books had been written (it takes place after the five books), and when the author suddenly released a new book, Witcher 3 had already been in development. I'm not sure if the game referenced anything from book 6.
Disagree, when you sign a contract with all the information available at the time, without any trickery, it's not reasonable to reneg on that contract, asking for more money. That's really the point of a contract, each side is promising to abide by an agreement.
Because he is breaking his legal agreement in demanding more money. He took zero risk and now gets to profit as if he had taken that risk. The company that took an even bigger risk now has to pay up. If someone breaks their word just because they are greedy, I call that person out as a dick.
Contracts get renegotiated all the time. He undervalued the rights to his own work, once the true value was apparent he attempted to rectify that mistake, and reached an agreement that was acceptable to both parties with CDPR. Shitting on an author for that is stupid, it's frankly none of your business
There's nothing bizarre about it. And from this thread only people are 50/50 on cdpr vs sapkowski.
The company was forced to an agreement to save on an expensive legal battle because he sued them. That's not "renegotiating a contract". It's likely CDPR gets nothing from this "deal" except to not have to deal with it anymore.
Nvm, I only knew about English translated book release dates, my bad.
Yeah sometimes it's necessary to get the courts involved. There is nothing morally wrong with Spakowski doing this.
Completely agree.
Just gonna have to disagree. It's morally wrong to make an agreement and then break it just because you want more money, when neither side hid anything. He didn't undervalue his work, he undervalued the use that CDPR would put to it and the extra value CDPR would add to his books (which he still doesn't believe that they helped his book sales at all, even in English-speaking countries).
Tolkien Estate sued because the movie studio was being shady - they promised royalties based on the movie profits, and then calculated their "profits" as if the movie trilogy was a loss. That's an entirely different situation.
I visited once a (public) law case at labor court. The company paid their employee compensation although he was legally fired because he stole a laptop from the company, kept a company car key after he was fired, and some other things; the sum they paid him was a year's salary. The judge said afterwards to us, my study class, that this happens all the time and the compensation seems big at first, but is usually the case here; the companies want to save their faces, outwards and inwards, that even if you part ways with the company, they 'care' for you.
he got what he asked for. CDPR gave him a choice. Less money now, but you will be given royalties or more money now but now royalties.
Do you want to tell me he didn't get money from the books he wrote from the company that was releasing his books?
He was an old man thatprobably didn't know shit about the videogame industry and the concept of a game selling for millions might have been alien to him. He also signed that contract for the first game when cd projekt was completely unknown, I'm sure he didn't know he was giving them the rights for all eternity.
