The Witcher author, Andrzej Sapkowski originally sold the rights to The Witcher for $4000 in 1998, according to Polish video game journalist and now Marketing Manager for CD Projekt Red, Marcin Kosman.
Following the closure of 4 studios, many are now worried for the future of Ninja Theory once Hellblade 2 is released.
Meant better to sell the studio and not closing it 🤦🏻 not to sell more games….
and games are sold anyways, you can buy it on xbox (not recommended if you got gamepass) but many pc gamers prefer to buy on steam than deal with the xbox app or pc gamepass!
On a side note to OP, the sales of studios wont happen though, especially when they want to retain the IPs, and well nobody is gonna buy a studios without its IPs; the other publishers that want a certain dev from the studio that are closing on their team can try to grab them as soon as they see they notice of the studio.
Because they're next come next year. HB2 won't hit some impossible metric within MS so they're getting axed in 2025. Leave gaming now MS.
Every xbox studio is in danger now because there’s just no way they’re gonna rake in big money from game sales because of gamepass, even CoD was rumored to not come to gamepass because it would canibalize their sales number.
If they are smart they don’t put COD on GP day one. It’s one of the best selling games on yearly basis
Ninja theory games were never big sellers. I could be wrong, but I doubt hellblade 2 will sell millions. I would rather they go independent and make heavenly sword 2.
heavenly sword is Sony owned IP. this will never happen as original didn't sell enough...
Wikipedia: "In 2008, it was reported that a sequel to Heavenly Sword was in-development at SCE Studio Cambridge, but was canceled due to Sony no longer seeing it as a commercially viable product"
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EA says the next Battlefield game is being built by the "largest Battlefield team in history," and confirms the game is in a playable state.
“I’ve just spent a whole bunch of time with the collective Battlefield team, playing what they’re building and it is going to be another tremendous live service.”
It's just what gamers want, more live service garbage.
What Henderson has leaked so far is that ... even though the dev size's large, they are playing safe this time,
so I am guessing big budgeted BF3 2.0 ... fingers crossed
We don't need thousands of workers wasting their time and effort, for many years, on a live-service project nobody asked for.
Just take a dedicated small team and create a cool Battlefield GAME. Not a service, but a game. As in 10-12 Conquest maps, 4 classes, cool gameplay, done. That's it.
That doesn't need 3-4 years of development. That doesn't need thousands of employees. Just go back to basics; Release a cool game, let gamers buy and enjoy that game, and 1-2 years later you release a sequel. No 'service', no subsciption, no DLC, no seasons. Just a game. On its own. Done. 50 bucks.
Wow, no wonder he regrets it now. 😁
Well sir... you blew it
Oops! 😅
Oh well, he'll make enough money selling his work in other mediums.
This man absolutely pisses me off. The books were great, and thankfully I finished them before he went and trash talked only CD-Projekt Red, but also video games in general.
He valued his work, but he didn't realize the power of the industry. He had simply written it off as a child's plaything.
This is identical to the dude who cashed out his Apple stocks for 800 bucks back in the day, for an easy payout. That stock today is worth 22 billion dollars.
Some people just roll the dice, and if that lack the proper vision, will do something stupid, and blame it on everyone but themselves in the long term.
I can understand how he feels. However, the other side to this story is just how much it is the devs doing that it became famous. CD project red is obviously an ace developer and would have made good games regardless of the source material they used. As much as he regrets it he should also realize the devs made the great game and story presented well and had numerous people working their very best to present the source material well. Which is just as important. 4000 was fair for the time. My only advice to people is to always keep the merchandising rights. What he should do is leverage his story writing skills to maybe get an advisor position of some sort at cd project red or simply write more stories.