Garry officially a rich bastard

[Thrik]

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-]

Jeez, awesome!

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

[skdr]

Valve takes 50%. Do the math

edit: I guess I was wrong

[Deathy]

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-]

So? it's 10% or 50%?

[Thrik]

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]

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

[Deathy]

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

Thats what I heard when it came out.

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]

/jealous

[FrieChamp]

Kudos Garry!

Frie also wants to be rich...

[JynxDaddy]

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

[e-freak]

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]

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]

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

Awesome for him, rich bastard

[Chunks]

I wonder how much he had left after taxes.