@ Paradoks - There are a couple of things which in my opinion are explaining (disclaimer - explaining, not justifying) Sapkowski's approach.

First thing - in Play magazine (not existing anymore polish newspaper about video games) in interview, where interviewer was asking Sapkowski about unfair label for video games as "baby toys", Sapkowski answered "there is nothing wrong about it, it's not label, because video games are indeed baby toys, just like Lego". He seems to have very, very "shortsighted" approach to such things as video games. In fact, he probably still have it, it's just numbers of $ of income from Witcher franchise, which "hit him" and was some sort of "impulse" to act in such way.

Which is partially connected with the fact, that he simply doesn't even have idea, nor is going to put an effort into continuing the franchise on his own - in one of the interviews (sadly, I forgot where) he admitet with "pride", that endings in Witcher game (probably first one? or maybe second?) are totally irrelevent, because "HE" knows only true ending of Geralt's fate (last book, Lady of the Lake, was a bit dubious about ending). and "MAYBE" he will show it in some book. IF he will decide to write it.

After that, he only wrote Season of Storms, a kind of "spin-off" , which action was set somewhere near action of "Last Wish" (collection of short stories, happened before Saga). It was a terrible thing. In fact, last tome, Lady of the Lake, was also like some sort of mistake, comparing to previous tomes.

To conclude - Sapkowski is still "very pride" about Witcher, yet he has no will, nor idea to somehow continue it or finish it on his own. Plus his approach to video games, and the fact that he only treats seriously cash, not the reason why this cash was made (video games) is also showing a lot.

Your post is quite bizarre. For one, CDPR had an agreement with the author to the rights, whereas you are suggesting a scenario of infringement. Secondly, copyright infringement is a civil issue, not a criminal one. I really don't know what you were trying to say.

Found this comment https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/9ko2fi/andrzej_sapkowski_of_the_witcher_demands_60/e70ta7s

CDPR invested their money and time while Sapkowski invested none of his money and time for the Witcher games. Therefore CDPR took all the (economic) risk.

Not sure what you mean by Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. How does it relate to this case?

Yes, but even if one does not believe in the success, getting a cut is still the better option. If you're right, there was not much to gain anyway. If you are wrong, a cut of the profits is your golden insurance there.

Yeah, I find it unlikely that any legit court would rule in favour of Sapkowski considering he not only rejected CDPR's offer of a share of profits but demanded a lump sum up front and totally admits to this himself and that he did it intentionally and rejected their offer outright.

The idea that the Polish law cited would ignore that fact and award him money seems ludicrous at best. He hasn't learned the "you get further with honey than with guns" principle. He'd have been much better off contacting CDPR and trying to make arrangements for future collaboration with them and working himself a better deal out of that for The Witcher 4 or something, and contributing to the story directly and also getting more of the credit for his work that he craves. They'd probably have been ecstatic to do so, since they are obviously big fans of his work.

But no, he disses them and video games in general, then throws legal threats at them with borderline extortion, wanting to keep it all hush hush.

Good luck with that I say. Talk about frivolous legal attempts...

The question still remains if the original deal was about exactly one game or not. Or maybe the contract wasn't really clear about it.

We can't see the contract to form a fully fact based opinion about that, but CDPR and their lawyers seem to be quite confident about it enough to publicize the extortion letter and their response on their website and prepare to go to war. I'm going to presume for the time being that they're on solid footing WRT that.

Only now heard about this.

He wanted the equivalent of 9000 dollars. He DENIED royalties which were offered by CD Projekt. Whatever is given to him now in addition is only the good will of our GOG overlords, not any legal obligation to Sapkowski. He missed out on his big deal because he either had no faith in his own fantasy world or in CD Projekt. What to make of that?

Also good timing doing this while Netflix wants to make a Witcher show. They surely like the prospect of future legal issues...