Garry's Mod surpasses 1 million sales

http://www.garrysmod.com/2011/07/26/over-1000000-sold/

The little uber sandbox creativy source mod that went to be a commercial indie game has broken hte 1 million units sold mark.

They even included an actual timeline graph of their sales. You can see how much steam sales effect the game:

Are those huge spikes the summer sale markers?

Are those huge spikes the summer sale markers?

Mograine

Are those huge spikes the summer sale markers?

Mograine

Summer/Winter/Daily Deals

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Are those huge spikes the summer sale markers?

MonsieurX

[QUOTE="Mograine"]

Are those huge spikes the summer sale markers?

MonsieurX

They seem placed way off the july period, more like the last days of august.

Only Steam can make a game sell more in one day than on the day of release over 4 years later.

I'm surprised. I thought it would have sold well more than that by now.vashkey

[QUOTE="vashkey"]I'm surprised. I thought it would have sold well more than that by now.lawlessx

[QUOTE="lawlessx"][QUOTE="vashkey"]I'm surprised. I thought it would have sold well more than that by now.Steameffekt

Considering how this mod has been talked about for years it is a bit suprising it only hit a million mark just now.

I bought it for like $2 during the Steam Sale but haven't gotten around to trying it out yet

and proof in the pudding.

Steam has sales to garner full price purchases not because they love you.

about time

and proof in the pudding.

Steam has sales to garner full price purchases not because they love you.

WilliamRLBaker

What exactly is it though?funsohng

Considering how this mod has been talked about for years it is a bit suprising it only hit a million mark just now.

Harisemo

and proof in the pudding.

Steam has sales to garner full price purchases not because they love you.

WilliamRLBaker

Garrys mod is awsome. The multiplayer Trouble in Terrorist Town is epic.

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and proof in the pudding.

Steam has sales to garner full price purchases not because they love you.

SilverChimera

Nah, if Microsoft was doing something similar he'd praise Microsoft as if they're Mother Teresa or Gandhi.

Wait when did it start being sold? I know it's been out for almost 7 years but if I remember right it was free for a while.

Like most of my games on Steam, i got it on sale for like £2.

Still i'm surprised it's only just hit a million.

and proof in the pudding.

Steam has sales to garner full price purchases not because they love you.

WilliamRLBaker

Gee ya think? Also, if you replace the word 'Steam' with any other company that sells products and I'm sure it'll still make sense. I wonder why....

Pretty dissapointing i will agree, considering alot of these sales are at a very low price with a very poor profit this really isnt so impressive for one of the biggest indie games....considering it was pretty regularly in the top 10 best sellers over the past few years it just goes to show you theres not as many purchases on steam as one might think!dom2000

I purchased it just after the 2010 Summer Sale I payed $24 and got Garry's Mod bundled with Team Fortress 2.

I expected way more.

GM is great though.

Its a great game, just a little surprised it took this long for it to sell that many copies.Morrdecai

Edit* When I tried to purchase Garry's Mod by itself without Team Fortress 2 I kept getting an error when I tried to purchase it because it said I had to have another Source game to purchase before I tried to purchase Garry's Mod.

[QUOTE="Morrdecai"]Its a great game, just a little surprised it took this long for it to sell that many copies.Nintendo_Ownes7

Seems low for 4 years and all the hype around it. Maybe if it had a better name it would sell more :PSaltyMeatballs

Hmm I wonder if we can use models from games like Vindictus which use source engine I wanna make Heavy and Karok fight over a sanvich.

Very impressive /sarcasmRR360DD

considering if you've ever played garry's mod a lot of people didnt adopt ten to start off with due to it being pay to play.But tbh it keeps on improving and getting better.

To be honest i'd rather see games like this get recoqnition its effectively a game where you can do as you please, i've done some pretty funny things in it have some really classic mods (CoD MW2 killstreak for example the ac-130 in Compound and spawning a ton of antlions is hillarious aswell as a lot of ones that build the creativity tools much better and add more in.)

Hope the trend of sales keeps increasing since it utilizes the Source engine better than any other source releases in my honest opinion.

I remember when gm was just starting out. It used to be such a pain in the ass trying to learn things.

I thought it would have had more sales after all these years, but its not too bad still.

That's pretty bad, considering how long its been out and how frequently it's mentioned.drinkerofjuice

[QUOTE="drinkerofjuice"]That's pretty bad, considering how long its been out and how frequently it's mentioned.Nintendo_Ownes7

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and proof in the pudding.

Steam has sales to garner full price purchases not because they love you.

Vesica_Prime

Nah, if Microsoft was doing something similar he'd praise Microsoft as if they're Mother Teresa or Gandhi.

But then the joke would be on him because Mother Teresa was a fraud and Gandhi was a racist.

G Mod is fun to go into random Role Play servers and cause havoc with your friends

Indie game or not, GM's sales are very lousy.drinkerofjuice

[QUOTE="drinkerofjuice"]Indie game or not, GM's sales are very lousy.cain006

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[QUOTE="drinkerofjuice"]Indie game or not, GM's sales are very lousy.drinkerofjuice

So by your logic in a game like Forza 3 which has sold under 4 million on an install base of 50+ million is bad too? Heil68

Forza 3 sold under four million, but it came out in 2009.

Garry's Mod just got past one million, and it came out in 2004.

Garry's Mod is on a platform with a userbase in the hundreds of millions.

I mean, seriously?

[QUOTE="Heil68"] So by your logic in a game like Forza 3 which has sold under 4 million on an install base of 50+ million is bad too? drinkerofjuice

Forza 3 sold under four million, but it came out in 2009.

Garry's Mod just got past one million, and it came out in 2004.

Garry's Mod is on a platform with a userbase in the hundreds of millions.

I mean, seriously?

so now Source code has sold hundreds of millions? :| Forza 3 sold to less than 1/12th it's user base and new game is just about to come out, it must be a failure. Heil68

But still, Half Life 2 has likely broken ten million sales. Team Fortress 2 has also sold a ton. So has Left 4 Dead. So has Portal. So has Counter Strike Source. There's a lot of people who have at least one game that uses the source engine. Garry's Mod install base is massive.

What you're not getting is that Forza 3 sold more than three million in a matter of two years. Those are great sales. Garry's Mod broke one million sales in nearly seven years. You cannot say, with a straight face, that those are good sales.

That's pretty bad, considering how long its been out and how frequently it's mentioned.drinkerofjuice

It's got a very dedicated, and vocal fanbase is all.

I mean on the sites I go to barely anyone mentions games like WoW, or CS, or Halo in comparison to Garry's Mod, or Killing Floor which are both much less popular games.

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[QUOTE="drinkerofjuice"]Indie game or not, GM's sales are very lousy.drinkerofjuice