Suhiira;n7413730 said:
Oh? So you're telling me that owning the rights to use a character in a game franchise gives you the rights to use that character whenever and wherever you wish? Gee ... so many lawyers and judges all over the world will be surprised to hear that. So will Mr. Sapkowski and every other writer in existence when they hear they sold the rights to their creations lock, stock, and barrel.
Generally if you own something, you can do whatever the hell you want with it. The right to do whatever the hell you want with an item you own its essential ingredient of ownership.. If something is yours, you decide what to do with it. You seem to confuse owning something with licensing. If you go to an author like Sapkowski and make an offer for Witcher rights (in video games) and he sells you them, he loses all control as he no longer owns it. Cdpr can do anything they want with said franchise and all its characters as long as its video games. They do not own rights to make a movie (somebody else acquired it - Sapkowski has no say in that either) so obviously the cannot make a movie but that because the do not own those rights. Its pretty simple. So yea if Cdpr decides to bring Ciri to Cyberpunk, they absolutely can (they own both franchises). The notion that you cannot cross-over characters because their origin lies in different franchises is absolutely ridiculous. Look at Hollywood, and how many different cross-overs we are seeing now. Things like King kong versus Godzila.. Sure, deals can be very different, they can have limitations (depending on payment methods that can obligate you to do something about the franchise in certain period of time or the right will revert back for example) but generally if its plain and simple - buying rights to a franchise in certain medium for a flat fee - its pretty straightforward. The way the Cdpr operates is that they want to own the rights, they are not interested in licensing (they've said that many times), they want total creative control. They own both Witcher and Cyberpunk in video game universe and they can do whatever they want with within this realm. I am not saying that they should include Ciri in Cyberpunk but they certainly can.
As to the conjunction ... you assume the world of CP2077 and that of W3 are the exact same world??? Where did the magic go then? Everyone just forgot what happened about 400 years ago? No, Ciri made it clear in her comment it was another world entirely, an alternate time and place, thus quite probably not subject to the conjunction.
I never said its the same world. You are saying that Ciri appearance is impossible as her appearance would have to mean that there is magic in Cyberpunk world. What I am saying is that, magic was not always present in Witcher world. It appeared after the worlds clashed in an event known as Conjunction of Spheres. Basically, monsters, magic arrived from another world. From perspective of Witcher lore, it is possible to open a portal to another world, a world that may not have magic in it. In theory one of this worlds could be Cyberpunk. Cir arriving in a world without magic, would not mean that world would suddenly become infested with monsters, wizards and other crap.Her effect on this world could be meaningless. The doors for such crossover are certainly opened. Personally, i wouldn't mind a easter egg, but she should not appear in flesh, so to speak.
