The belief, widely spread by CDPR, that the games made me popular outside of Poland is completely false, Sapkowski told Waypoint of The Witcher series.
I made the games popular. All of my translations in the West including the English one were published before the first game.
This is just factually incorrect? The Witcher released globally on PC in October 2006. The first Witcher book released in English was The Last Wish, which arrived in 2007, and the first novel, Blood of Elves, wasnt published in English until 2008.
The author has said in the past that The Witcher games have lost him as many book sales as it brought in, and asked about this maintained that it would be about equal, yes.
There are more people who have played the games because they read the books, he added. Thats my count, but Im not sure. I never did any studies.
Throughout the interview Sapkowski has little good to say about video games, freely admitting hes only in it for the money, and claiming that games are spoiling his market because all the authors he meets are younger than he is and think he writes adaptations of video games. Or something? Its not entirely clear.
What is clear is that Metro author Dmitry Glukhovsky thinks Sapkowski is not only totally wrong but also an arrogant motherfucker, because he says that flat out.
Original waypoint interview seems to be down for me for some reason. ---