If we’d have priced it at $50 or $30, or even $20, I don’t think it’d have lasted ten years.”īack then, Steam was a far cry from the juggernaut it is today. I thought: who would pay for it? When we were first talking about price we thought $10. “We decided to have it that cheap because when Valve originally asked if we wanted to put it on Steam I said no. “The price goes back to the original days,” he explains. Newman describes the hype at this time as “crazy”, but recalls refusing Valve’s first offer. After all, he thought, who would pay for what is essentially an idiosyncratic take on a free Source engine mod? Fast forward two years and a dedicated, burgeoning community had blossomed, the press were fighting for coverage, and Valve themselves had approached Newman to discuss bringing the mod to their digital distribution service.Īt this stage it seemed Garry’s Mod had transcended its nominal “mod” appellative, becoming a fully-fledged game in its own right. In 2004, creator Garry Newman launched his eponymous project to the world free-of-charge. Given how much it offers players in return – an open, manipulatable sandbox with almost limitless possibilities – and as a mod that labels itself one “you definitely can’t win”, it seems like a pretty good deal. If you have followed this guide and are noticing that the game mode is not working correctly, make sure to contact the game-mode developer with the error you are getting.When Garry’s Mod debuted on Steam nine years ago it cost a meager ten dollars (seven pounds).
In Garry’s Mod, one of the best parts of hosting your own GMod server is the ability to use custom game modes.
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