> “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?
And one could argue that the gamemakers were much more motivated to create a successful product when they started out in the red, but got the keep all of any profits.
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