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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fexPosted:
extfexextfexextfexsmoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
Well a lot of people love the game, and it is a great game!
I thought a lot of people pirated it though. Not that many people buying it
A lot of people, but a lot of people bought it as well.
I would get it but I heard you need a pretty decent PC?
Yeah I heard that as well, I heard it was a very good game though
The Ammount of mini games and people have done with Gmod is insane!
DV8Posted:
fexextfexextfexsmoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
Well a lot of people love the game, and it is a great game!
I thought a lot of people pirated it though. Not that many people buying it
A lot of people, but a lot of people bought it as well.
I would get it but I heard you need a pretty decent PC?
Yeah I heard that as well, I heard it was a very good game though
fexPosted:
extfexextfexsmoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
Well a lot of people love the game, and it is a great game!
I thought a lot of people pirated it though. Not that many people buying it
A lot of people, but a lot of people bought it as well.
I would get it but I heard you need a pretty decent PC?
DV8Posted:
fexextfexsmoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
Well a lot of people love the game, and it is a great game!
I thought a lot of people pirated it though. Not that many people buying it
A lot of people, but a lot of people bought it as well.
fexPosted:
extfexsmoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
Well a lot of people love the game, and it is a great game!
I thought a lot of people pirated it though. Not that many people buying it
DV8Posted:
fexsmoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
Well a lot of people love the game, and it is a great game!
fexPosted:
smoothskin Got to love garrys mod though
Its great! I cant beleive it has this many sales! A lot of people pirated it though
CayPosted:
KatsumiHike i watch videos on it i would to play it but i only have a laptop
Garry's mod is a generally low specification game. I was able to run it just fine on my laptop
it can run on any laptop the game was released in '05 lmao
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