Garry's Mod To Be Sold On Steam

Considiring I just spent $12 on a salad for lunch, I don't think $10 is too much to ask.

Now, what the fuck is Gary's Mod?

I would think the only people whining about this still live with mom and dad. Everyone else knows what it takes to actually pay the bills. Good for him. After all his hard work he should get a little money for his efforts.

Anyone that spends $5.00 everyday on a fucking double mocha latte or whatever you wanna call it should not bitch about paying $10 for Garry's Mod or $1.89 for Official Oblivion Mods.

I liked it better when mods were FREE, good for him though, it isn't easy to make money off your mods..

Yay for steam finally doing what Valve promised oh so long ago.

Good for Garry.

Now Valve, how about an update to the SDK codebase for the rest of us poor, broke modders?

Thats gay, way to betray the community what a jerk i would give him two cents for it.

while personally I don't care (it's not worth 10$ for me but your mileage may vary) I'm not sure what to think about the issue as a whole

On the one hand Garry's Mod is impressive and the current version will remain free, while the funding allows him to continue working on the project which is good for the people who care enough to pay him, when he could just have quit developing any updates like he aparently intended to, and I'm sure that's the same for other ambitious mods

On the other hand I'm concerned about the recent trend towards inflating pricing for electronic entertainment to degrees unheard of in the last about three years. Games are hit with a largely unfustified 10 bucks "next-gen" premium, regular games have content locked or cut in order to allow for limited editions carrying a higher price tag being the only versions providing the full game, once-free minor content addons like for Oblivion are being charged for, episodic content will almost certainly lead to certain studios charging half of a full-price game for a third or less the content, and community mods - if they're even possible, thanks to game companies sabotaging serious modding attempts (see BF2 or the lacking official mesh-import for TES4) while releasing their own overpriced mods - of all kind go commercial left and right.

I'm happily paying a price for good games and even outstanding mods, but somewhere you'll have to draw a line - and if suddenly the only free content on top of a pricey game is demos and mods of very limited scope, I'm sure not gonna be playing as much anymore...

Good for this guy,but the people who donated will be pissed.

I didn't realize he was going to make the people who donated have to pay again...wow.

$5 maybe for a non-game, but $10? That's 2/3s a month of WoW.

I think many people are missing the point that the current "free" version is pretty much the last in that line. He has started to completely rewrite the whole mod to better take advantage of LUA etc. He also has access to the source now without having a license. That opens up many more possibilities.
Also, Valve won't sell anything on steam for less than $10. Blame the price on them if you want but I think it's a fair price.

Awesome. I'd gladly pay even $20 for GarrysMod. He's a cool guy and so is the mod, he deserves a little cash. He has definately earned it.

I don't get why people are making a big deal out of this. People can still play with the older versions, which is all they would have had otherwise. But now he is being paid and starting working actively on it again people complain? Yeah people donated, but it's not like it's a simple matter to give it to people free or at a discount over steam from donating via paypal or whatever in the past.

I'm missing the part where Gary is holding guns to your heads asking for $10.
If you don't like it, don't pay for it. It's that simple. /shrugs

Excuse me, but shouldn't a mod be in a complete, polished state before turning it into a commercial product? Asking $10 for bug fixes for a freakin' mod seems way too much to me.

I think this matter is rather simple. If this is worth 10 dollars to you getit. If its not then dont get it.

This is great news for Garry, congrats. I'll buy it if it gets more usable and polished.

Pony Armor!

Well Garry really worked a lot on his mod, was a great guy on the SA forums, and I'm delighted to see he's gonna get some cash from it.

I haven't touched a garry's mod version in half a year, but you can be damned sure I'm gonna buy it.

People who donated money in the past, will have to pay again to get the latest version.
translation- thanks for the money, gimme some more.

So, it means it will be half as good as Episode One? C'mon, this thing should be $2.50 at most.

My purchase will depend on what fixes he puts into the new releases that he's charging for. I don't really have many issues with the current free release, so I probably won't update to the paid version until he puts something substantial in there.

While I think it'd be great if mods started charging something like $1 or $2 (it'd be good for the devs + it would be a cool price for people to test it out without much regret) I think $10 might be too much. Okey, Garry's mod is already stablished and well known, but it just looks too much for a sandbox mod.

As with CS, I think this is a good thing.

He has a bazillion project he'd rather work on besides this, so it's a very good initiative. With this he will finally be able to wrap up the great looking run&gun game FaceWound that he has worked on for several years.

I'm going to buy it. Fuck the whiners.

Meh, good for him.

I hope the $10 goes to really improve the interface. :)