I was stupid enough to sell them rights to the whole bunch. 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.
Yeah no.
This right here is his main problem. CDPR opened with offering him a percentage, they tried to give him what he wants now but he refused and said he specifically just wanted a lump sum right then. Now that the Witcher is a huge success and there's a Netflix series that he's involved with he's full of spite and regret and just mad at himself for not taking the percentage when he had the chance. So he attacks the company that made his work recognized and loved worldwide. He says it himself multiple times that they would create a new series and new stories, plural. Which leads me to believe that he absolutely signed off on CDPR making their own stories with his characters.
I'm sure that he could have renegotiated with CDPR for some royalties, I seriously doubt that they would just ice him out completely. But to attack them with litigation? For the equivalent of 16 Million dollars? After the loving way they've used his characters and introduced his work to millions of people around the world? I kind of think fuck him. Stew in your regret, let him get his payday from Netflix and future projects.
Yeah it is something of a heinous look and if there isn't a public apology and ostentatious house cleaning effort I ain't buying shit from these clowns
I was stupid enough to sell them rights to the whole bunch. 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.
Yeah no.
This right here is his main problem. CDPR opened with offering him a percentage, they tried to give him what he wants now but he refused and said he specifically just wanted a lump sum right then. Now that the Witcher is a huge success and there's a Netflix series that he's involved with he's full of spite and regret and just mad at himself for not taking the percentage when he had the chance. So he attacks the company that made his work recognized and loved worldwide. He says it himself multiple times that they would create a new series and new stories, plural. Which leads me to believe that he absolutely signed off on CDPR making their own stories with his characters.
I'm sure that he could have renegotiated with CDPR for some royalties, I seriously doubt that they would just ice him out completely. But to attack them with litigation? For the equivalent of 16 Million dollars? After the loving way they've used his characters and introduced his work to millions of people around the world? I kind of think fuck him. Stew in your regret, let him get his payday from Netflix and future projects.
Naaaahhhhhhh root for creatives over corporations, especially corporations that churn creatives up like CDP is purported to do
And if the law in Poland allows for it regardless of the original agreement, so much the better
Yeah it is something of a heinous look and if there isn't a public apology and ostentatious house cleaning effort I ain't buying shit from these clowns
Yeah it is something of a heinous look and if there isn't a public apology and ostentatious house cleaning effort I ain't buying shit from these clowns
I'm really and genuinely sick of CD Projekt's shit re: letting their social media run amok in the most regressive, grumbler-signalling way possible
What happened now?
They co-opted a twitter tag regarding the erasure of the legal status of trans people in the US to advertise old video games
Are we sure they even knew what the hashtag actually meant and just didn't use a trending hashtag without thinking?
This is the third time in as many months that they have done regressive and transphobic signalling on their social media and then followed up with the same non-apology, they one hundred percent do not need to be defended or given the benefit of the doubt about this
Yeah it is something of a heinous look and if there isn't a public apology and ostentatious house cleaning effort I ain't buying shit from these clowns
I'm really and genuinely sick of CD Projekt's shit re: letting their social media run amok in the most regressive, grumbler-signalling way possible
What happened now?
They co-opted a twitter tag regarding the erasure of the legal status of trans people in the US to advertise old video games
Are we sure they even knew what the hashtag actually meant and just didn't use a trending hashtag without thinking?
"Yeah, how's that for some use of hashtags" in the original tweet makes it sound like they knew they were being edgy/shitty by using the hashtag to me.
Yeah it is something of a heinous look and if there isn't a public apology and ostentatious house cleaning effort I ain't buying shit from these clowns
Yeah it is something of a heinous look and if there isn't a public apology and ostentatious house cleaning effort I ain't buying shit from these clowns
I'm really and genuinely sick of CD Projekt's shit re: letting their social media run amok in the most regressive, grumbler-signalling way possible
What happened now?
They co-opted a twitter tag regarding the erasure of the legal status of trans people in the US to advertise old video games
Are we sure they even knew what the hashtag actually meant and just didn't use a trending hashtag without thinking?
"Yeah, how's that for some use of hashtags" in the original tweet makes it sound like they knew they were being edgy/shitty by using the hashtag to me.
Yeah that definitely reads like whoever tweeted that knew exactly what they were doing. That is pretty shitty.
I'm unhappy about it. Not sure if writing to them will get anywhere, but I'm going to do so, and encourage everyone else here to do the same:
contact@cdprojekt.com
(If anyone has a better contact source, let me know; I'm sure as hell not interested in going publicly on Twitter and inviting a mob to yell at me)
I think an effective letter would discuss:
1. The incidents and your disappointment/anger/disgust
2. That you are/were a customer
3. The impact of their actions despite these "we're not political" platitudes
3. What you want done (an apology, no more shit like this to occur)
4. Consequences on failure (wrong side of history; you not spending any more money on them)
Sent off my email! It was long and rambling but hopefully the sincerity will get to... someone, an actual person
I doubt they'd appreciate it, but in this day and age and me being my private self I'm mildly discomfited even sending an email from an actual account. (I'm on the "never ever ever tweet publicly" side of things.)
Anyway, I feel a bit better, so this was a good task for me to do. Wyborn and I are leaning towards skipping Cyberpunk unless they wake the fuck up, properly apologize, and somehow show they're no longer courting the 'gate crowd.
On one hand I’m disappointed and will be skipping Cyberpunk.
On the other, I still haven’t even played Witcher 3 very much...
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Still playing through for the first time, probably closing in on a hundred hours in and possibly midway through the plot, not counting DLC. I do a lot of sidequesting.
Listen, you mutants, that's not how you light a funeral pyre. That's not how you light any fire, period. You take a 6x4x3 block of tightly packed logs, lay a corpse on top of it, and lightly touch the corpse's chest with a torch?
Unless this is some really subtle use of Igni that's covered in the lore, what you're going to end up with is some scorched funeral garb, an intact body, and a bunch of logs that don't even know there's a fire going on.
Get that fucking hair off his goddamn shoulder and tie that shit up in the back. What are you doing? Did no one give these people a picture of Geralt to look at?
They should scar his face a little bit. He looks a little too young.
The beard could fix this too but apparently in the books (which I admittedly have not read) he mentions hating having a beard at some point, and the show runner said she’s trying to stay close to the books.
He definitely needs to be scarred up a bit. And "Just short of Halle Berry Storm" probably shouldn't be the bar you're reaching for when it comes to the hair.
Actually, the first thought I had was that he looked like the first live-action Geralt (specifically the gif of the guy doing a twirly sword spin towards the camera, and getting sprayed with blood)
That could actually be a fun character moment if he has to spend some time in the wilderness and grows a beard and fuckin hates it.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
a friend of mine pointed out that he doesn't have cat eyes, which is a big part of what's wrong, imo
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
I wonder if they will actually do the eyes the way they are in the games. I can imagine it being thought that creepy non-human eyes on your protagonist could make audiences take to him less.
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Yeah no.
This right here is his main problem. CDPR opened with offering him a percentage, they tried to give him what he wants now but he refused and said he specifically just wanted a lump sum right then. Now that the Witcher is a huge success and there's a Netflix series that he's involved with he's full of spite and regret and just mad at himself for not taking the percentage when he had the chance. So he attacks the company that made his work recognized and loved worldwide. He says it himself multiple times that they would create a new series and new stories, plural. Which leads me to believe that he absolutely signed off on CDPR making their own stories with his characters.
I'm sure that he could have renegotiated with CDPR for some royalties, I seriously doubt that they would just ice him out completely. But to attack them with litigation? For the equivalent of 16 Million dollars? After the loving way they've used his characters and introduced his work to millions of people around the world? I kind of think fuck him. Stew in your regret, let him get his payday from Netflix and future projects.
I have bad news
They co-opted a twitter tag regarding the erasure of the legal status of trans people in the US to advertise old video games
Naaaahhhhhhh root for creatives over corporations, especially corporations that churn creatives up like CDP is purported to do
And if the law in Poland allows for it regardless of the original agreement, so much the better
Are we sure they even knew what the hashtag actually meant and just didn't use a trending hashtag without thinking?
This is the third time in as many months that they have done regressive and transphobic signalling on their social media and then followed up with the same non-apology, they one hundred percent do not need to be defended or given the benefit of the doubt about this
"Yeah, how's that for some use of hashtags" in the original tweet makes it sound like they knew they were being edgy/shitty by using the hashtag to me.
Yes. It’s a pattern.
Yeah that definitely reads like whoever tweeted that knew exactly what they were doing. That is pretty shitty.
contact@cdprojekt.com
(If anyone has a better contact source, let me know; I'm sure as hell not interested in going publicly on Twitter and inviting a mob to yell at me)
I think an effective letter would discuss:
1. The incidents and your disappointment/anger/disgust
2. That you are/were a customer
3. The impact of their actions despite these "we're not political" platitudes
3. What you want done (an apology, no more shit like this to occur)
4. Consequences on failure (wrong side of history; you not spending any more money on them)
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I doubt they'd appreciate it, but in this day and age and me being my private self I'm mildly discomfited even sending an email from an actual account. (I'm on the "never ever ever tweet publicly" side of things.)
Anyway, I feel a bit better, so this was a good task for me to do. Wyborn and I are leaning towards skipping Cyberpunk unless they wake the fuck up, properly apologize, and somehow show they're no longer courting the 'gate crowd.
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I thought they were just a competitor to Steam?
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
On the other, I still haven’t even played Witcher 3 very much...
Listen, you mutants, that's not how you light a funeral pyre. That's not how you light any fire, period. You take a 6x4x3 block of tightly packed logs, lay a corpse on top of it, and lightly touch the corpse's chest with a torch?
Unless this is some really subtle use of Igni that's covered in the lore, what you're going to end up with is some scorched funeral garb, an intact body, and a bunch of logs that don't even know there's a fire going on.
Literally unplayable.
Also he looks good but I don't see him as Geralt, I definitely see him as "Henry Cavill wearing a Geralt costume"
that wig is the wiggiest wig
(The books always had him with some sort of a headband but I always read as incredibly dorky so ok I'm glad it's not there)
He looks like.. a prettied up version of Geralt in the first game?
Alternatively: a LOTR elf
Alternatively alternatively: Draco Malfoy's dad
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The beard could fix this too but apparently in the books (which I admittedly have not read) he mentions hating having a beard at some point, and the show runner said she’s trying to stay close to the books.
Now work on the details
That's... not good
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I agree he needs a scar and maybe a small amount of stubble but it's a good start.
Alternatively alternatively alternatively: Christopher Lambert as Raiden
My world is shattered.