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Just to clarify, Witcher books were made into a movie an TV series in Poland in 2001 and were a total flop. To this day the movie is considered to be one of the worst in Polish history (and we had a really bad filmmaking period until recently so this is a big achievement). So when CD Projekt Red, a gaming company which started off from a freaking gaming magazine, offered to make a game out of his books, he probably saw it as an opportunity to get a quick buck but didn't believe in the enterprise. And I completely understand.
He's an unpleasant person, but he's also extremely intelligent and he wouldn't take that step if he didn't have a chance of getting some money - probably not the full sum, but he probably hopes that CD Projekt Red will make a settlement and he'll have money to get old comfortably.
In 1997, when the deal was made, CDPR was a tiny company that grew out of a gaming magazine. There was no way he could've predicted that 20 years later they will be a global giant.
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More like "my work has never translated well into other media but if those nerds with acne who run a gaming magazine want to give me money, so be it".