> “I was stupid enough to sell them rights to the whole bunch,” Sapkowski said at the time. “They offered me a percentage of their profits. I said, ‘No, there will be no profit at all — give me all my money right now! The whole amount.’ It was stupid. I was stupid enough to leave everything in their hands because I didn’t believe in their success. But who could foresee their success? I couldn’t.”

Do you think he would have returned the lump sum if the game failed and they went broke?

You give up risk when you ask for a lump sum

CD Projekt Red is a computer game company who created a game based on sapkowski’s books. The games and company did very well.