The Witcher

Yeah he basically said the game would never make money, so he took a relatively small lump fee up front rather than a percentage royalty. Then the game was very successful. I'm pretty sure he did alright with the sequels - by accounts CDPR were really gracious - but he still moaned a lot.

He then kept saying that the games had no influence on the success of the franchise - nevermind that hardly if any of his books were even translated until after the games, in particular after gamers explicitly asked for them to be translated.

That alone doesn't make him a wanker, but his overall attitude does. He never had anything good to say about the show (and hey, maybe he was right there in the end..) and I feel like the main reason he likes Cavill is because Cavill is always adament about staying true to the source material.

It's basically a classic case of loving the art but hating the artist.

Maybe he should write better books lol

He created one pretty-decent character, but he would have 0 real fame if it weren't for CDPR

I don't remember him saying the games butchered his work. From what I remember je doesn't care for them beyond the payout they "owed" him. He doesn't understand the medium at all and afaik doesn't know much about the story in them. And even if he did, it's all on the level of fan fiction to him (which is fair - he is reportedly writing another book from the universe and I understandnhe doesn't want to be tied down by things someone else wrote in his universe)