Slashdot Mirror
Garry's Mod Goes Commercial
Gothic_Walrus writes "A recent entry in The Steam Review brings the news that Garry's Mod, the popular mod for Half-Life 2 that allows players freedom to play with the game's physics engine in what is effectively a sandbox mode, is going to be sold through Steam at a $10 price point. It's worth noting, however, that the current version of the mod will remain as a demo."
To be totally honest, if I had developed Garry's Mod, I would sit down one day and say "I'd be insane not to sell this." It's fully featured, well done, and allows you to explore the exact mechanisms of the fantastic Source physics engine. If i were still into it hardcore, I'd probably throw down the $10 for the extra features in the pay version.
This is the beauty of Steam and how independent publishing works - the same way everything else does. Have a good product that people like and enjoy using? Sell.
ACs are modded -6. I don't read you, I don't mod you, I don't see you. Don't like it? Don't be a coward.
You know, paying for garys mod is like paying for a tech demo. All this thing is used for is to play around with a graphics engine you already paid for in HL2. I really don't understand why anyone would want to pay for this. Just another tiny expansion to milk money out of peoples pockets, like selling CS for HL1 in stores when it was free online.
With the increasing complexity of the toys, addons, and other hacks a good game inspires, it's always good to see an independent modder make good on his or her work, especially when it's something a bit more inspired than a simple "put Barney the dinosaur into Doom" or "put a beard on Mario" hack.
Slashdot Burying Stories About Slashdot Media Owned
If I had mod points I would mod you up. "Price point" is a business speak for "cost".
Why can't people simply say that it will be sold "for $10", without adding a completely meaningless appendage?
Same reason you say *completely* meaningless instead of just "meaningless". People like to embellish.
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
If getting some income on this allows him to spend more time working on the mod and less time worrying about feeding himself other ways, then it just might be a great move for the mod as a whole. Doing things just for the fun of it is nice, but it doesn't put food on the table. I think just about everyone would like the opportunity to make a little money off of their favorite hobbies. Making a living off of it would be even more nice. Making a living off of it and being your own boss is even better. If you really appreciate the work that Garry has done, and the fun that it's helped a lot of people have, you should be happy to see him profit off of it. Your cynicism is not the least bit productive.
One time I threw a brick at a duck.
I'm not a huge fan of the term myself, but I think the idea is that people tend to group prices into certain mental categories. For example, there might be an "under $1" price point that people think of as basically nothing, so we're willing to spend 75 cents on a game of Tekken or a Snickers bar or something else we don't really care about. And if we think of 2 cents and 57 cents and 99 cents as basically the same amount of money, why wouldn't a company charge 99 cents?
;-)
Same here, I'd imagine. If I'm willing to pay $7 or $8.25 for this mod, I'm almost certainly willing to pay $9.99, because it's all the same "price point" psychologically speaking. I'm not gonna say, "$7.85 would be acceptable, but ten bucks is RIGHT OUT!" So they might as well charge $9.99.
All this is conjecture, of course. Just my $0.99.
You've never seen someone think they are paying $2.19 for gas when they are really paying $2.199?