Man, Woolie is my inner shitty thoughts. Outside I cringe and say "man, that sucks" while inside I'm laughing and thinking he's a big idiot. Woolie is a better man then I.
6:20 I always feel at home when Woolie gets that hype in the room lol "And CD Project has landed every one of those shots with his *track suit on...* and he's still *_wearin his T I M B S nigga!_* "
I mean the author is so cool that after he finished the novels he not only said it was cool for 4A to run with it, BUT HE HELPS THEM WRITE THE GAMES. He collaborated the whole time with 4a not only for the new game, but back before he released the final book he worked with A4 to make shure the games tied in with the book. For example artyoms wife is introduced in the games before the books but the whole story fits in for 2035. Thats an author acknowledging the potential games have
Man, I had to replay the part with Woolie's response to this so many times because I was laughing so hard I started crying and couldn't listen properly.
Here's my thing. You can feel sorry for Andrzej throwing away the chance to make the royalties off of _The Witcher_ games, but personally, my sympathy erodes a little when you learn the guy has a degree in economics. It wasn't like he was an idiot about these things and didn't know about how royalties and royalty percentages work, he legit thought--either feeling that his works weren't important enough to notice (sympathetic, but unlikely) or out of raging arrogance regarding his fans, video game players and all--that CD Projekt Red would fail in its endeavor to translate his universe to a wider audience, and pretty much said as much to the faces of the people who were working to make this happen. That's a _really_ shitty way to treat people who obviously respect you and your work, and it abates whatever sympathy I have for him regarding the matter.
To be fair to him, CD Projekt Red was a small games localization company whose only in-house project was a cancelled port, and the Polish video games market at the time was mostly pirated games from other countries. If you had a book series in 2002 and a group approaches you that: A) Are working in a market that is dominated by other countries that for the most part exists in Poland only through piracy. B) Have never released a game before, and does not know how to make games. Asked if they could base their game on your novel and pay you royalties or a sum. Would you wait for these punks to get successful if they ever get successful, or would you pay your bills? The chance of them hitting it big, let alone the fucking biggest award-winning series over ten years later, looked like the same chances as winning the lottery. And there are plenty of developers now in today's market when there are way more avenues for funding, and distribution who still fail super hard and go nowhere. Also never forget Mighty No. 9. Hindsight is 20/20.
This is true, but it also happens to fit a rather unfortunate pattern of behavior for Andrzej in regards to both _The Witcher_ and his fans. He never really intended _The Witcher_ to become the massive success it was (it started off originally as a collection of short stories focusing on a post-modernist take on traditional fairy tales like Cinderella and the like) and has gone on record as saying that the only reason he had Geralt and Yennifer killed at the end of _The Last Wish_ (kind of a spoiler, but if you've played _The Witcher_ games, this is the point where the game franchise begins) was because he was getting sick of writing the books--which is fair--but also because he found his fans to be annoying, so he wanted to pocket what money he could and bury the franchise. While it's certainly understandable that some people might not enjoy the more fanboy aspects of their fanbase, it's pretty much agreed that Andrzej's reaction boiled down to "I'm killing your beloved character because he's not making me enough money and I don't like you." Compare this to Glukhovsky's attitude, which has been very warm towards his fanbase, and accepting of both fan reactions and fan interpretations, including the video games. You'll also note that with the success of the games, Andrzej since gone on to write another _Witcher_ novel, albeit a prequel. And he wasn't a starving writer at the time, or anything like that. While they weren't well-known by the wider world, _The Witcher_ was an absolute sensation in Poland. By 2002, Andrzej was making plenty of money in Poland from _The Witcher_ books, not to mention the money he had received from the short-lived _The Hexer_ TV series, which incidentally he practically sabotaged when he found out it wasn't making enough money for his liking. He was a well-established author with a sizable fanbase, so really, while one could be skeptical of CD Projekt Red's ambitious undertaking, there really wasn't any reason to pocket the cash and then practically tell them to their face "you're going to fail". The only one who had anything to lose at this point was CD Projekt Red. Andrzej already had one bad adaptation of the series, and it hadn't destroyed his career or people's opinion of the books. Finally, while he's been fine with the games themselves existing, Andrzej has displayed a very condescending attitude towards the medium of video games and towards _The Witcher_ games themselves, and has since gone on to state that the entire _Witcher_ game series is non-canon. While he has every right to state as much, this combined with said attitude towards games really just comes across as considering the games to be inferior on the basis that they are games, which is a terrible attitude to have towards a sizable chunk of the fanbase that considers the games an excellent complement to the book series, and the means by which a much wider international audience can easily access the series. Also, I hope you don't find this wall of text as a response to be offensive, or anything. You make excellent points, but bringing up said points made it clear that what I've said could require some context.
Here's a thing though: Empirical experience often works like that, even though it should not. Now, you might think it does not apply, but it does. Because Sapkowski sold the rights to the video game adaptation TWICE. And the first time, the game failed to materialise at all. Over several years. And yes, there was every reason to believe that CD Projekt Red's was going to fail, because it nearly did. We are talking about the game that used Aurora, an engine that was five years old, and wasn't that good in the first place, because it was a better alternative to what CDPR had. The script was scrapped. Twice. For an RPG game. That's why you have lines and scenes lifted whole from the book. And I mean wholesale. As in, you can point to a book and it is word for word identical. The only reason, and I mean, the only reason, CDPR managed to release the first Witcher at all was because, at the time, majority of the developer team was polish and were thus fairly good programmers and writers, that were paid below what is considered a minimum wage in western countries. The people running the company didn't know what the fuck they were doing, because they decided to start making video games as an alternative to publishing, seeing as Steam was starting to become a thing and it became obvious that the physical publishing was on its way out. They haven't learned fast either, because aggressive expansion very nearly killed the company before they could release Witcher 2. Sapkowski is an arsehole. I've met the guy, I know that for fact. But he didn't make a mistake in judgement at the time. The idea that CDPR could succeed is baffling when you know the details. Also, the problem with Witcher and Sapkowski is that he is mad at the series as a whole. He hates it, because there are other books of his, which he considers to be better, and which never achieved the same levels of popularity. Basically, he is best known for the work he himself considers inferior. Speaking as a writer myself: That is immensely frustrating.
+ MrDarth151 Oh, believe me, I'm honestly kind of baffled at the success of the studio and that the games have done as well as they have with a wide international audience, or hell, at all. I can also certainly sympathize with the way he feels about _The Witcher_ and, as I graciously consider myself an aspiring writer (having not written a damn thing that's seen publication, mind) I can imagine what it would be like to only ever be remembered for something I wrote to pay the bills, and I can see why he'd have such a bitter attitude in regards to anything having to do with _The Witcher._ He's got the right to feel that way and, again, I can totally sympathize with that. I can also imagine why he'd be initially skeptical of the game deal (and I had no idea that CDPR's deal was the _second_ one offered to him, so thanks for enlightening me to that) on the basis that, indeed, CDPR was a tiny studio with nothing notable to show for it at the time, working on an adaptation to a game that almost nobody outside of Eastern Europe would have heard of before. So, in and of itself, asking for one lump sum in case the game or the deal fell through is actually the smart play in that situation. I know that's probably what I would do if that ever happened with me, doubtful as it may be. Hindsight's 20/20 and all that. So I don't think he's an idiot or a jerk just for making the deal he made, that'd be ridiculous, and I apologize if the way I wrote my comment made it appear that way. My issue in terms of the deal he made and the narrative around it is that Sapkowski was not some wide-eyed babe in the woods starving artist who got swindled out of money he righteously deserves, as I have heard a few people tell me. He wasn't. He knew exactly what he was doing and while it was the smart thing to do, it's still an absolutely dickish thing to tell that to people who are going to work hard to adapt your work into anything, be it a film, television show or game that their endeavor is going to fail straight to their faces out of sheer contempt. I get that he didn't trust them and that he hates _The Witcher,_ but that's just rotten. So basically, I'm not saying the guy's an idiot or made a dumb decision. I'm just saying I don't feel sorry for the fact that he missed his chance to get his Scrooge McDuck on and spend his days lounging by the big money poolside full of them improbable vidya game royalty bucks. Because as you said it, he's an arsehole. By the way, and no sarcasm here at all, I'd love to know what you've written. I'm always looking for new stories and authors to check out, so if you get this reply (god knows I never get alerted to replies to my comments), drop me a title or a link or what have you! : D
That's rich coming from someone bent on making fantasy gritty and hard boiled and lowest common denominator, clearly-for-the-angsty-teens as possible...
Man I remember reading Witcher books as a child... Such an amasing series. And then half a decade later - there's gonna be a video game! Holy shit I was hyped, and boy do the CDPR delivered!
I love the Witcher books, but the author is completely WRONG. He is polish, I'm hungarian, our countries kinda have a everlasting friendship, but those damn books weren't even HEARD of in my country, on my language, let alone translated.
When I First played the game and found out about the books, i immediatly tried to buy them. But there wasn't a single one published in Brazil yet. Tried Portugal, nothing as well. As a last resource I tried in English and only found the First book published, which i couldn't even buy because the price was Crazy when converted to my country's currency. In other words: He's Full of shit, those books weren't even close to being published in most countries. Edit: in Brazil, the First book was published in 2011a mere 4 years after the game's release lol
Well I have this massive Medieval Fantasy series that I'm making and hope to turn it into a show or game one day but I kinda can't because I have things from other game franchises in it.
poland doesn't border russia proper. it technically borders russia as it is next to kaliningrad oblast, a russian exclave taken from nazi germany and never returned to another nation becase russia wants a baltic port that isn't frozen. but it isn't connected to the rest of russia.
Flash forward to the tail end of 2019. CDPR and Andrzej make a new deal where he can collect royalties because CDPR wanted to give him the money he foolishly passed on.
They didn't do it out of charity. Andrei was in the process of taking them to court and polish courts were more likely to possibly give him more in royalties than if CD just straight up gives him some guaranteed royalties without taking the risk and spending money on legalities. If this were an American court Andrei would have been up shit creek but a Polish court was much more likely to side with him from what I understand.
the bit about the translations is such a lie :o . i also had to read fan translations after the first game had already been out for a while because only two out of all the witcher books had been translated yet
I really hope they don't make a new Witcher. There's absolutely no threat that can top the White Frost and the Wild Hunt. The war Nilfgaard waged ended, and Ciri might not even be a witcher in some endings. It would cheapen the third game and spit on people that got the Empress ending. I hate it when a game forces a "canon" ending for multiple choice endings.
To be completely fair to the author: it's not necessarily that he hates video games in particular. The Witcher also was a Polish TV series that was god awful and was panned in Poland when it aired. It took him a long time to want to give the rights to the Witcher to any medium, so it stands to reason the second time he might want to demand up-front payment. While he's definitely still salty about the money (and he should have known better, given he was an economist before a writer) it still makes his situation a little more understandable.
Only issue is that chucklefuck of an author deliberately sabotaged that TV series when he found out it wasn't making him enough money, and no the dude DOES hate video games and follows the mentality of "Bah! Dis is just fer dem stupid kids!"
He had his first chance and he fecked it up. It's like the lead actor did for GTA4: he didn't think it would be popular after it was released and pull the same shite I get the concern but I'd be happy to see my work got love due to 3rd party help.
Even if the books were good, they'd still be worthless as far as the English-speaking crowd is concerned. I never even heard of the series before the first game came out, and if you told me that it was some series of fantasy novels from Poland that you could only experience in the form of bootleg translated text files, I don't think I would have even bothered.
14:20 "Russia, a crazy piracy country", huh ? You mean country #2 of Steam's language usage (and sales) ranking until arrival of China which put it in #3 now ? That Russia ?
I don't feel sorry for the author of the Witcher at all. He is a plaglarist and a fool, and the games blew his books the fuck up in popularity in the west.
Spicy Salmon he not a plagiarist you idiot he wrote books first a plagiarist copy’s someone’s works and says it there’s the witcher books are his work.
Not sure if you're aware The Many, but before calling someone an idiot you should read through the comments. Other's believe his books hold plagiarized elements from another author. From your comment, it seems you think Salmon was talking about the games...
Ok, still no reason to call someone an idiot especially since that's possibly not true. I haven't read his books or the works people think he plagiarized so I can't say, but whether you see something as plagiarism, mirrored thinking, or inspired works is up to perspective sometimes. If multiple people feel its plagiarism then to them its plagiarism, but professionally its up to the authors of both works to bring it to light.
Man, Woolie is my inner shitty thoughts. Outside I cringe and say "man, that sucks" while inside I'm laughing and thinking he's a big idiot. Woolie is a better man then I.
Woolie's pure joy here is infectious
IT'S SO GOOD
6:20 I always feel at home when Woolie gets that hype in the room lol
"And CD Project has landed every one of those shots with his *track suit on...* and he's still *_wearin his T I M B S nigga!_* "
It's so pure, and it's perfectly called for. Also, it's fun to wonder about the other authors Woolie may be thinking of when sharing this sentiment.
@@Edward-Not-Elric The birdcalls he inexplicably does after he says that fucking kill me.
"What a Fool" - Blackula, symphony of the hyena laugh 2017
I kinda want a t-shirt with a picture of the Witcher's author looking sad written in huge caps *WHAT A FOOL*
Chio Chan Genocide I'M A FOOL, A FOOL IN MAN'S SHOES
i need it
For what? He got a huge payday upcoming
Also want
Where’s the petition? Where do I sign up or pay to get this?
Woolies reaction killed me XD
I feel like I'm vicariously experiencing this conversation through Woolie. I went through his exact motions when I was reading up on this whole thing.
Woolies *Thuggery* Spilled out a bit and I loved every single bit of it
I've never heard woolie get that thug and drop an n-bomb. It was hilarious
so short version: Metro 2033 is an awesome game made by awesome people and more people should play it :P
I mean the author is so cool that after he finished the novels he not only said it was cool for 4A to run with it, BUT HE HELPS THEM WRITE THE GAMES.
He collaborated the whole time with 4a not only for the new game, but back before he released the final book he worked with A4 to make shure the games tied in with the book. For example artyoms wife is introduced in the games before the books but the whole story fits in for 2035.
Thats an author acknowledging the potential games have
When I’m having a bad day, I come back to this clip
Woolie’s laugh cures everything!
6:19 for mad skills.
Also is anyone else seeing a big empty space directly below Pat on the logo?
Ouch. How did they not spot this mistake.
Coming back to this and the pog analogy... How terrifyingly prescient. Although it was about different kind of pog.
3:31 Woolie's jovial tone here is so wonderful. I wanna put this shit on loop!
6:20 Oh my fucking god I love Woolie
Man, I had to replay the part with Woolie's response to this so many times because I was laughing so hard I started crying and couldn't listen properly.
This is the most hip hop woolie has ever been
I was gonna upload this but title it "The Witcher's Salty Author" lol
Here's my thing. You can feel sorry for Andrzej throwing away the chance to make the royalties off of _The Witcher_ games, but personally, my sympathy erodes a little when you learn the guy has a degree in economics. It wasn't like he was an idiot about these things and didn't know about how royalties and royalty percentages work, he legit thought--either feeling that his works weren't important enough to notice (sympathetic, but unlikely) or out of raging arrogance regarding his fans, video game players and all--that CD Projekt Red would fail in its endeavor to translate his universe to a wider audience, and pretty much said as much to the faces of the people who were working to make this happen.
That's a _really_ shitty way to treat people who obviously respect you and your work, and it abates whatever sympathy I have for him regarding the matter.
TPoseCulture thank you for researching that. you made me smile just reading this and for that you get a gold star.
To be fair to him, CD Projekt Red was a small games localization company whose only in-house project was a cancelled port, and the Polish video games market at the time was mostly pirated games from other countries.
If you had a book series in 2002 and a group approaches you that:
A) Are working in a market that is dominated by other countries that for the most part exists in Poland only through piracy.
B) Have never released a game before, and does not know how to make games.
Asked if they could base their game on your novel and pay you royalties or a sum. Would you wait for these punks to get successful if they ever get successful, or would you pay your bills?
The chance of them hitting it big, let alone the fucking biggest award-winning series over ten years later, looked like the same chances as winning the lottery. And there are plenty of developers now in today's market when there are way more avenues for funding, and distribution who still fail super hard and go nowhere. Also never forget Mighty No. 9.
Hindsight is 20/20.
This is true, but it also happens to fit a rather unfortunate pattern of behavior for Andrzej in regards to both _The Witcher_ and his fans. He never really intended _The Witcher_ to become the massive success it was (it started off originally as a collection of short stories focusing on a post-modernist take on traditional fairy tales like Cinderella and the like) and has gone on record as saying that the only reason he had Geralt and Yennifer killed at the end of _The Last Wish_ (kind of a spoiler, but if you've played _The Witcher_ games, this is the point where the game franchise begins) was because he was getting sick of writing the books--which is fair--but also because he found his fans to be annoying, so he wanted to pocket what money he could and bury the franchise. While it's certainly understandable that some people might not enjoy the more fanboy aspects of their fanbase, it's pretty much agreed that Andrzej's reaction boiled down to "I'm killing your beloved character because he's not making me enough money and I don't like you." Compare this to Glukhovsky's attitude, which has been very warm towards his fanbase, and accepting of both fan reactions and fan interpretations, including the video games. You'll also note that with the success of the games, Andrzej since gone on to write another _Witcher_ novel, albeit a prequel.
And he wasn't a starving writer at the time, or anything like that. While they weren't well-known by the wider world, _The Witcher_ was an absolute sensation in Poland. By 2002, Andrzej was making plenty of money in Poland from _The Witcher_ books, not to mention the money he had received from the short-lived _The Hexer_ TV series, which incidentally he practically sabotaged when he found out it wasn't making enough money for his liking. He was a well-established author with a sizable fanbase, so really, while one could be skeptical of CD Projekt Red's ambitious undertaking, there really wasn't any reason to pocket the cash and then practically tell them to their face "you're going to fail". The only one who had anything to lose at this point was CD Projekt Red. Andrzej already had one bad adaptation of the series, and it hadn't destroyed his career or people's opinion of the books.
Finally, while he's been fine with the games themselves existing, Andrzej has displayed a very condescending attitude towards the medium of video games and towards _The Witcher_ games themselves, and has since gone on to state that the entire _Witcher_ game series is non-canon. While he has every right to state as much, this combined with said attitude towards games really just comes across as considering the games to be inferior on the basis that they are games, which is a terrible attitude to have towards a sizable chunk of the fanbase that considers the games an excellent complement to the book series, and the means by which a much wider international audience can easily access the series.
Also, I hope you don't find this wall of text as a response to be offensive, or anything. You make excellent points, but bringing up said points made it clear that what I've said could require some context.
Here's a thing though: Empirical experience often works like that, even though it should not.
Now, you might think it does not apply, but it does. Because Sapkowski sold the rights to the video game adaptation TWICE. And the first time, the game failed to materialise at all. Over several years.
And yes, there was every reason to believe that CD Projekt Red's was going to fail, because it nearly did. We are talking about the game that used Aurora, an engine that was five years old, and wasn't that good in the first place, because it was a better alternative to what CDPR had. The script was scrapped. Twice. For an RPG game. That's why you have lines and scenes lifted whole from the book. And I mean wholesale. As in, you can point to a book and it is word for word identical.
The only reason, and I mean, the only reason, CDPR managed to release the first Witcher at all was because, at the time, majority of the developer team was polish and were thus fairly good programmers and writers, that were paid below what is considered a minimum wage in western countries.
The people running the company didn't know what the fuck they were doing, because they decided to start making video games as an alternative to publishing, seeing as Steam was starting to become a thing and it became obvious that the physical publishing was on its way out. They haven't learned fast either, because aggressive expansion very nearly killed the company before they could release Witcher 2.
Sapkowski is an arsehole. I've met the guy, I know that for fact. But he didn't make a mistake in judgement at the time. The idea that CDPR could succeed is baffling when you know the details.
Also, the problem with Witcher and Sapkowski is that he is mad at the series as a whole. He hates it, because there are other books of his, which he considers to be better, and which never achieved the same levels of popularity. Basically, he is best known for the work he himself considers inferior. Speaking as a writer myself: That is immensely frustrating.
+ MrDarth151
Oh, believe me, I'm honestly kind of baffled at the success of the studio and that the games have done as well as they have with a wide international audience, or hell, at all. I can also certainly sympathize with the way he feels about _The Witcher_ and, as I graciously consider myself an aspiring writer (having not written a damn thing that's seen publication, mind) I can imagine what it would be like to only ever be remembered for something I wrote to pay the bills, and I can see why he'd have such a bitter attitude in regards to anything having to do with _The Witcher._ He's got the right to feel that way and, again, I can totally sympathize with that.
I can also imagine why he'd be initially skeptical of the game deal (and I had no idea that CDPR's deal was the _second_ one offered to him, so thanks for enlightening me to that) on the basis that, indeed, CDPR was a tiny studio with nothing notable to show for it at the time, working on an adaptation to a game that almost nobody outside of Eastern Europe would have heard of before. So, in and of itself, asking for one lump sum in case the game or the deal fell through is actually the smart play in that situation. I know that's probably what I would do if that ever happened with me, doubtful as it may be. Hindsight's 20/20 and all that. So I don't think he's an idiot or a jerk just for making the deal he made, that'd be ridiculous, and I apologize if the way I wrote my comment made it appear that way.
My issue in terms of the deal he made and the narrative around it is that Sapkowski was not some wide-eyed babe in the woods starving artist who got swindled out of money he righteously deserves, as I have heard a few people tell me. He wasn't. He knew exactly what he was doing and while it was the smart thing to do, it's still an absolutely dickish thing to tell that to people who are going to work hard to adapt your work into anything, be it a film, television show or game that their endeavor is going to fail straight to their faces out of sheer contempt. I get that he didn't trust them and that he hates _The Witcher,_ but that's just rotten.
So basically, I'm not saying the guy's an idiot or made a dumb decision. I'm just saying I don't feel sorry for the fact that he missed his chance to get his Scrooge McDuck on and spend his days lounging by the big money poolside full of them improbable vidya game royalty bucks. Because as you said it, he's an arsehole.
By the way, and no sarcasm here at all, I'd love to know what you've written. I'm always looking for new stories and authors to check out, so if you get this reply (god knows I never get alerted to replies to my comments), drop me a title or a link or what have you! : D
Also interesting what mr Sapkowski said that he does not interact with gamers in general, because he only talk with people who are intelligent.
That's rich coming from someone bent on making fantasy gritty and hard boiled and lowest common denominator, clearly-for-the-angsty-teens as possible...
Man I remember reading Witcher books as a child... Such an amasing series. And then half a decade later - there's gonna be a video game! Holy shit I was hyped, and boy do the CDPR delivered!
I'd like to see Pat or Matt play through the Metro games. They're some of dem good vidya games.
Ditto but with a lean towards last light instead of 2033.
I would say hopefully Exodus but if they haven't played the other two, I want last light on the channel.
Yeah, about that....
@@BigFingerRo ima cry again
WELL TOO FUCKIN BAD
Every time Woolie references the boondocks its fucking golden
To be fair, I imagine people constantly saying to you, "Oh, so you wrote the novel adaptation for the Witcher?" would get old really fast.
TieDef Except only obviously, rarely occurring idiots would ask that. It would never be a constant.
@@logandh2 ^
Imagine the salt when one day there's a picture of Henry Cavill on the front of one of his books. Yet another layer removed from him.
Why when he is involved in that series
Just expounding on the point the boys made. Also, are you sure? I read that he has said he isn't, even though the showrunner has implied otherwise.
I want the witcher authors tombstone to say.
*"R.I.P. 1940s-2019 WHAT A FOOL!"*
Darrian Weathington lol
If the dude dies next year I'll be back here to make some requests
MsGuinhodias I'll be playing the lottery
Aw man... Pat saying "I turned 31 recently..." hits so hard today, as it is my 31st birthday in a few days....
Oh god, its happening to ME too!!
This was 6 years ago. Pat and for the record myself are now turning 38. And everything hurts.
I just turned 30 this year 😂
You got on this one fast. I'm glad though! This was the best moment of the podcast, by far.
Top 10 Hypest Woolie moments
We got to hear years added onto his lifespan in real-time.
Wait, hold up.........
Pat is 31!?
Oh shit, I thought he's much older!
TheCarlosCobain I thought he was somewhere around 28
Nah pat is actually a crotchety old man
Get ready to clip the part when they talk about this again!
and he's still got his timbs nigga!
6:00 easily best part of the entire clip. I dare anyone to fight me on this.
And he still wearing his TIMS!!
October 2 2018 the salt of the grumpy old man became real and tried to take legal action
They need to play the Metro games...
I read all the 7 novels with fantranslations so I could finish them before Witcher 3 came out.
I love the Witcher books, but the author is completely WRONG. He is polish, I'm hungarian, our countries kinda have a everlasting friendship, but those damn books weren't even HEARD of in my country, on my language, let alone translated.
I don't know, they were [retty popular in Russia. I read them way before the first game was finally made.
Igen lol
When I First played the game and found out about the books, i immediatly tried to buy them. But there wasn't a single one published in Brazil yet. Tried Portugal, nothing as well. As a last resource I tried in English and only found the First book published, which i couldn't even buy because the price was Crazy when converted to my country's currency. In other words: He's Full of shit, those books weren't even close to being published in most countries.
Edit: in Brazil, the First book was published in 2011a mere 4 years after the game's release lol
Oh look a year later and he tried to take legal action before getting rekt by CD project red
What bizarre alternate reality was this when _Pat_ was the guy trying to look at the bright, non-cynical side of things in the end?
Sympathy for his fellow crotchety-old man
Fki
Never allow the desire for a legacy to cloud your decisions
foolishness, andrej, foolishness
Matt: ""What did Gackt do to Gundam?"
Pat: "He made it"
Matt: "He made it? '79 huh"
LOL XD
Ah Matt u so funny!
Well I have this massive Medieval Fantasy series that I'm making and hope to turn it into a show or game one day but I kinda can't because I have things from other game franchises in it.
poland doesn't border russia proper.
it technically borders russia as it is next to kaliningrad oblast, a russian exclave taken from nazi germany and never returned to another nation becase russia wants a baltic port that isn't frozen. but it isn't connected to the rest of russia.
Geralt discovers the author
ah the only way to defeat it is throw in small amounts of coin and tons and tons of salt
Woolie is the boy
please know that I didn't think u had radiocast...... I'll b watching from now on🐺
And now he's sueing
10:05 Gootecks
"And he's still wearin his TIIIMSS *****!"
Flash forward to the tail end of 2019. CDPR and Andrzej make a new deal where he can collect royalties because CDPR wanted to give him the money he foolishly passed on.
They didn't do it out of charity. Andrei was in the process of taking them to court and polish courts were more likely to possibly give him more in royalties than if CD just straight up gives him some guaranteed royalties without taking the risk and spending money on legalities. If this were an American court Andrei would have been up shit creek but a Polish court was much more likely to side with him from what I understand.
the bit about the translations is such a lie :o . i also had to read fan translations after the first game had already been out for a while because only two out of all the witcher books had been translated yet
It all comes back eventually
Let it be said that there's no stronger feeling in the world than Schadenfreude.
2:44 which is hilarious because thanks to the show, theyre doing that even more now
3:40.... Except under the copyright laws he's citing.. He didn't
The salt of these authors are real
Santi Kun I'm meaning that the author of Metro is salty to the author of Witcher
Sure, but so are the Best Friends, in that sense.
You beat me to it! D'oooooowwwww ;D
give me money for my work as you do. here is my character give me money.
Out of all GRRM's collected works, I'd sat ASoIaF is probably my least favorite. I much preferred his work on the Wildcards series.
I love ASoIaF, but Tuf Voyaging was way better than people give it credit for.
Considering he ripped off the Elric saga to make his Witcher series, I'm fine with him getting screwed out of his royalties.
DocDelray that awful Confused Matthew/Spoony rip off sure
Rezfist is hack
I really hope they don't make a new Witcher. There's absolutely no threat that can top the White Frost and the Wild Hunt. The war Nilfgaard waged ended, and Ciri might not even be a witcher in some endings. It would cheapen the third game and spit on people that got the Empress ending. I hate it when a game forces a "canon" ending for multiple choice endings.
i just want another rpg of Witcher 3's quality. hopefully Cyberpunk could be that
That’s dumb.
Which is incredibly hilarious considering geralt is almost a carbon copy of elric
at least metro is semi original
This is so relevant now XD
CD Project making millions IN HIS TIMS, NIGGA!
even after 2 years it sounds ridiculous
and then he sued cd projekt red
Metro Exodus is coming, play the Metro games!
To be completely fair to the author: it's not necessarily that he hates video games in particular. The Witcher also was a Polish TV series that was god awful and was panned in Poland when it aired. It took him a long time to want to give the rights to the Witcher to any medium, so it stands to reason the second time he might want to demand up-front payment. While he's definitely still salty about the money (and he should have known better, given he was an economist before a writer) it still makes his situation a little more understandable.
Only issue is that chucklefuck of an author deliberately sabotaged that TV series when he found out it wasn't making him enough money, and no the dude DOES hate video games and follows the mentality of "Bah! Dis is just fer dem stupid kids!"
He had his first chance and he fecked it up. It's like the lead actor did for GTA4: he didn't think it would be popular after it was released and pull the same shite
I get the concern but I'd be happy to see my work got love due to 3rd party help.
Witcher Author: "Video games are worthless as art"
Me: Like how your books are worthless as entertainment?
the books are actually really fucking good
but he is full of himself
*DESTROYED* Astral Finish!
When you call it worthless as literature, it'll sting deeper.
Even if the books were good, they'd still be worthless as far as the English-speaking crowd is concerned. I never even heard of the series before the first game came out, and if you told me that it was some series of fantasy novels from Poland that you could only experience in the form of bootleg translated text files, I don't think I would have even bothered.
also to anyone interested in how this turned out after he sued them
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Proyect Red
Oh boy hes back again and hes extra salty this time. Wants 16 million lol
And now the writer of witcher is suing cd projekt red
14:20 "Russia, a crazy piracy country", huh ?
You mean country #2 of Steam's language usage (and sales) ranking until arrival of China which put it in #3 now ? That Russia ?
Eeeh...They aren't wrong, piracy is still a strong thing in Russia, despite the existence of steam and other services.
At the very least I can agree with the Witcher author in one thing and one thing only: Video Games are a shit medium.
I hate confused Spoony
The witcher is sort a rip off of Elric
And confused Spoony is one worst critic i ever seen on youtube
Writer of the witcher is asshole
I don't feel sorry for the author of the Witcher at all. He is a plaglarist and a fool, and the games blew his books the fuck up in popularity in the west.
Spicy Salmon he not a plagiarist you idiot he wrote books first a plagiarist copy’s someone’s works and says it there’s the witcher books are his work.
Not sure if you're aware The Many, but before calling someone an idiot you should read through the comments. Other's believe his books hold plagiarized elements from another author. From your comment, it seems you think Salmon was talking about the games...
Jabarr Reid the problem is that he may have being inspired by some of the others elements that not really plagiarism.
Ok, still no reason to call someone an idiot especially since that's possibly not true. I haven't read his books or the works people think he plagiarized so I can't say, but whether you see something as plagiarism, mirrored thinking, or inspired works is up to perspective sometimes. If multiple people feel its plagiarism then to them its plagiarism, but professionally its up to the authors of both works to bring it to light.
Jabarr Reid you are right I shouldn’t have called him an idiot that was out of order
The Witcher is just a rip off of Elric
Ethan Taylor that whiny asshole
Spoony meet confused matthew