Wait, their business model was cosmetics?
Everyone told them they hated the disgusting thumb-person models, I think for years. They obstinately went with them anyway, when their business model was centered around people caring how their character looked?
That is deeply retarded
Basically, its success relied on three assumptions (drastic oversimplification but hear me out).
1. People would like the sausage playermodels, which the items are modeled for. (If I understand correctly, you cannot use them on the normal human playermodels. Let me know if I'm wrong about this.)
2. There would be a lot of successful games that use the sausage playermodels, where you could use the items you bought in-game.
3. S&box overall would be popular enough for the items to be significant like they are in Counter-Strike. (Imagine if CS only had 1,000 players. No one would give a shit about your rare gloves.)
All three of these conditions have ended up being false. Most people don't like the sausage models. A decent proportion of the games
do use the sausage models, but it doesn't matter because no one is playing them. And no one is playing S&box in general. So if you buy/own skins, it isn't nearly as cool as having a knife in CS or something.
In my opinion, S&box's monetization is very similar to a lot of the shitty item collector games that came out on Steam in 2024, basically relying on "Hey look there's only 100 of these items so they're gonna be super expensive!", which failed because there was nothing to do with them and eventually no one cared about them anymore (among other things).
This is also why people were comparing S&box's items to NFTs, to which Garry played dumb and pretended he didn't know what they were talking about.
Around 12% of reviews complained about NFT's. I have no idea what this shit is about. Of course we don't have NFTs or blockchain stuff, and never will.
I'm not sure if you guys would consider him a lolcow by traditional standards but he's quickly becoming one of my favorites to laugh at how retarded he is.
Mentions of s&box being a "spiritual successor" to Garry's Mod have been removed.
Although it happened way too late now, I actually think this was a good decision on their part. If Facepunch wants people to stop comparing S&box to Garry's Mod, they could start by not doing it themselves anymore. You can't really blame people for expecting Garry's Mod 2 when they kept using the name "Garry's Mod" in every other sentence.
