Garry's Mod tops 3.5 million sold, continues to pick up steam
Garry Newman, the game's creator and namesake, cites a number of reasons for its success: the ever-increasing popularity of Steam, user-generated content, additions from other Valve games like Team Fortress 2, and the modern prevalence of video game footage on YouTube. That last one is crucial, as Garry's Mod thrives on its weirdness. The game itself allows players to place any Source Engine object into the world to manipulate as they see fit, and as the above screenshot demonstrates, the best results are often bafflingly weird.
Surprisingly, Newman believes that Minecraft – a similarly open, wildly popular sandbox game – is more of an aid than detriment to sales of Garry's Mod. "You'd think Minecraft would kill GMod's popularity ... but it's kind of the opposite," Newman told Rock Paper Shotgun. "People play Minecraft to death – they love it ... so they go out looking for other games that are a bit like it. Minecraft has attracted a lot of people that aren't really PC gamers too. They play the game on the 360 or the iPad and everyone tells them that the PC version is better."
While current monetary figures don't exist, Newman revealed in March that at the time Garry's Mod had generated $22 million in sales so far – quite a haul for a $10 Steam title that's never seen a proper retail release.
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/11/26/garrys-mod-tops-3-5-million-sold-continues-to-pick-up-steam/
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undisclosedPosted:
CL4PTRAP I personally don't own a gaming pc to run this however the game looks amazing.
you need anythig but gaming pc to run this. Garrysmod is also so popular because it can be run more easily than minecraft. its can be a real fun game with many game types like trouble in terrorist town, RP (if ur into that stuff) and mini games. there i really endless amount of things you can do
Glock-Posted:
I have Garry's Mod. It is one of the best games. You can download over a million add-on's from personal items to other game add-on's such as weapons and characters. If anyone is thinking of buying it. do it. It's an endless game. You can build and do whatever you want. You can download almost anything you can think of for an add-on.
WhisPosted:
I remember playing it at my local gameshack and its pretty good :D and congrats to the makers for 3.5 mil
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