CD Projekt's PERFECT RESPONSE to The Witcher Author's $16m Demand

I heard that now everything is settled between the 2 parties and the contract has been renewed

Games profit a lot by publishing stories, ideas, worlds and lore created by the author, these are called intellectual properties . It is only rightful that the author get to demand what he wants to be paid for his work of art and original idea or concept. Without him, there will be no Witcher games. Not to say the obvious, but stories of games adopted from real literary creation like witcher 3, are more interesting than what we usually get from other RPG games.. This I believe, is what makes the author's intellectual properties as priceless to begin with.

Most stories in RPG games are made by 40 different writers all mashed into one game, this poses a problem to character development, lore, and creates untied loopholes and loose ends in the story, attributing to general confusion and dissatisfaction. Because different authors have different minds: hence different ideas, interests and most importantly, any artist out there has the very predictable knack to inject their own subtle messages into the stories they create. As the number of artists creating the story increases, the variety of interests and purpose becomes more and more obvious and sometimes takes the focus away from the original concept. This fact in turn takes a toll on the general objective, purpose and coherence of the story and in turn affects the overall experience.

The books presented us a very interesting story of a character who is interestingly powerful but just like everyone else is trying to live his or her life doing what he believes to be of the general good. (How he earned the moniker "The butcher of Blaviken" at 1st glance may seem like a glorious title. But if you read the story about it in "The Lesser Evil", you will understand how he reluctantly gained it and despised the title. He tries to be a hero because he knows he can do something for others with his abilities, yet in the cruel world always ends up getting shamed and misunderstood. With the environment he is living in and the circumstances, he is always forced into conflicts and tasks beyond his interests that leads to one thing or another. A somewhat sort of predestination which leaves him with nothing but grey moral choices. Though the character is physically impossible to exist in reality, his ordeal, his humane beliefs, feelings and general purpose represents the majority of us people and what we try to do in our daily lives. You can very much relate to his experiences in what you are going through in real life situations. You try to be some kind of hero to help others and to always do what is good and fair for everyone, but the cruel world were living in is always unfair to you; Judge you the wrong way or marginalize you and put labels on your person. And interestingly enough, only the females in the story are the real geniuses who somehow are able to see what a person truly is inside. (Otherwise Geralt wouldn't get laid as frequently as he did). So does being treated unfairly while trying to do good sound familiar to you? Yes? Because this is what were actually experiencing in our real lives day in and out. No matter who you are, rich or poor, we all are always experiencing this reality's betrayal to our goals and intentions. This is why most of us still don't have the answer to the most important question in life: "What is my purpose". And this is what makes the story of Geralt so interesting. Without Sapkowski, or had there been many people doing this work, this conveyance of the whole experience would not be possible. In short I agree that he has the right to demand any price for his creation. It is true that you can't put a price on beauty. 😉

Nobody would know the witcher without the games (i mean the big audience) including myself…. Hes so disrespectfull because he was offered profit sharing but he refused it. He didnt believe that such games could be successfull. When he see he was wrong he wanted his piece of cake afterwards but he didnt get it. Hes a truely embittered and ungrateful person. Cd project made something grate of his vision and deserves a lot of more credits than he gives….

So is Polish currency gold?

The creator of the Witcher novels should of settled for a percentage just like the creator of cyberpunk did and not a quick 5k or whatever shit he settled for,

They settled with the author but not for the full amount he asked for. That means they gave in and lost.

salty man
he was their hero and he shit on them

Who the fuck is Andrei Sapkow-whatever… the author would be another George RR Martin wannabe had it not been for the games.

He's not the EA of book authors because EA actually succeeded in cash grabbing lmao

They should ask the writer to pay them. Think about how many books have been sold as a result. Plus the movie option. Is more from the game

Ugh Sapkowski has been an aggreviating addition to Polish fantasy book fandom let me tell you this. He is generally convinced of his superiority and reading his interviews is always… ineteresting. Don't get me wrong, I love witcher books even before the games came out but a) they're not a literary masterpiece b) that doesn't help his behaviour.
And second thing that makes this claim so infuriating is that he constantly belittles games. He said it clearly he "doesn't have time for games", has never seen gameplay, doesn't consider games art. or any sort of valid genre of entertainment worth his appraisal. He certainly won't admit that witcher games are what made his books sell abroad. So it's even more annoying because he had repeatedly belittled games during his career.

I still doubt that he's just so greedy. Anyway if you wanted to buy/pirate any of the books the first three are best. Others go downhill

Cyberpunk 2077 is rumored to be released in 2077.