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Garry officially a rich bastard

  • Thrik
  • December 6, 2008 at 2:37 PM
  • Thrik
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:37 PM
    • #1

    Well, maybe. Former MapCore regular and creator of Garry's Mod revealed last week that his mod has sold an insane 312,541 copies on Steam thus far, which at a rate of $10 per copy means it's netted revenue of approximately $3,125,410.

    No idea how much of this actually filtered through as obviously Valve takes a cut and whatnot, but wow. It must be inspirational to see how much he's come on from first posting those crappy screenshots in #mapcore of experiments he was doing weeks after HL2 came out.

  • -HP-
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:40 PM
    • #2

    Jeez, awesome!

    There's something about mapcore that attracts talent and awesomeness!

  • skdr
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:41 PM
    • #3

    Valve takes 50%. Do the math

    edit: I guess I was wrong

  • Deathy
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:42 PM
    • #4

    Well actually Valve is not taking a small cut (50%) but 1.5 million for such a time wasting/addicting mod. congrats and whatnot.

  • -HP-
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:43 PM
    • #5

    So? it's 10% or 50%?

  • Thrik
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:48 PM
    • #6

    Valve must have some kind of special arrangement with Garry, because I'm fairly sure that someone working on games being released via Steam told me a few months ago that Valve takes a 10% cut. skdr evidently heard/knows this from somewhere too.

  • Spellbinder
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:50 PM
    • #7

    Awsome, i gratulated him then and i'll gratulate him again for this. To have a vision and work hard pays of obviously

  • Deathy
    • December 6, 2008 at 2:53 PM
    • #8

    http://www.astahost.com/garrys-mod-10-t12982.html

    Thats what I heard when it came out.

    Quote

    Garry’s Mod, the Source-powered physics sandbox famed across the games industry, is to be sold over Steam for $10 US, with profits split 50/50 between Garry and his team of contributors and Valve.

  • dux
    • December 6, 2008 at 3:05 PM
    • #9

    /jealous

  • FrieChamp
    • December 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM
    • #10

    Kudos Garry!

    Frie also wants to be rich...

  • JynxDaddy
    • December 6, 2008 at 3:37 PM
    • #11

    i would like to take this opportunity to announce : JynxDaddy's Mod

  • e-freak
    • December 6, 2008 at 4:50 PM
    • #12

    yeah it's 50/50 and valve didn't charge for source and steam usage so it's a pretty good deal, esp. considering garry no has something like 1,6 million $.

  • R_Yell
    • December 6, 2008 at 5:06 PM
    • #13

    I guess Valve had in mind such kind of split deal for mods from the beginning, at least when people talked about selling Dystopia in Steam if I remember correctly. Just this generation of mods didn't get there.

  • Mazy
    • December 6, 2008 at 6:41 PM
    • #14

    One of the few success stories of the source engine I guess

    Awesome for him, rich bastard

  • Chunks
    • December 6, 2008 at 10:01 PM
    • #15

    I wonder how much he had left after taxes.

  • Sindwiller
    • December 6, 2008 at 11:07 PM
    • #16
    Quote from Chunks

    I wonder how much he had left after taxes.

    Enough. :roll:

    Gratz.

  • Pampers
    • December 6, 2008 at 11:09 PM
    • #17

    if you read his blog you can see that he have bought two new cars and moved twice after gmods steam release

  • Vinny Testaverde
    • December 6, 2008 at 11:31 PM
    • #18

    I am sure he is making good money, but there are expenses as well. And he has worked his ass off the past couple of years

    Its just another job...

    But good going garry! hardwork and good ideas pay off.

  • MJ
    • December 7, 2008 at 3:39 AM
    • #19

    don't be haters and congrats Gary.

  • Chunks
    • December 7, 2008 at 4:42 AM
    • #20
    Quote from Sindwiller

    Enough. :roll:

    Gratz.

    Heh, that was my point.

    I'm sure he had plenty of expenses not to mention I would think he had a few other people help him out with gmod, so i'm sure some of the money got spread around.

    Does anyone know if he plans on any other projects or is gmod his sole focus right now?

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