I am starting to believe that the holiday update and advertising push has become Garry's version of Steiner's relief forces because there is nothing here to inspire hope like even Rust had at first.
He's like 25% of the way to figuring it out. There are no good games, Garry, because you scared off everyone with a brain and now they're using a different engine.
There are no players either.
You can redesign the UI as many times as you want; you're still ignoring the core issues that people have been telling you about for years. Until there's a significant change in mindset, this shit is going to stay dead.
Linux support is genuinely a good move, credit where credit's due, but it doesn't change that there's basically no reason to purchase or play this game at this time.
I think the only way he can win people back is to be more controlling on the homepage of top games being promoted, promote creativity and not pure ai slop trend chasers, give grant money to respected developers in the community to make games for your engine either sequel to their games or something new, promote creativity over chasing that dollar mindset in the community, and literally make a new trailer promoting this mindset and literally kill your sausage people in a lighthearted way in the trailer and end with saying you're going a new path with playermodels or reveal the new default models that aren't sausage people.
I think these things could steadily win people back, show that you're listening, and get rid of this games depiction of it being a crpytobro hustlers game.
I think he needs to make it free-to-play for one. Ain't nobody paying $20 for AI games and a crackhead version of Source 2.
Then host a game jam or something, with a hefty prize pool for extra incentive, promote it across the Source 2 modding sphere to get the best and the brightest working within your engine.
And then bribe streamers and youtubers to play and talk about these games and Sandbox as a whole to build a new audience.
And then slowly increase the price of the game, or maybe go for a different model monetizing individual games, or whatever's best to build a self-sustaining revenue stream.
...But that would involve admitting the game is a failure and we can't have that.
I think the only way he can win people back is to be more controlling on the homepage of top games being promoted, promote creativity and not pure ai slop trend chasers, give grant money to respected developers in the community to make games for your engine either sequel to their games or something new, promote creativity over chasing that dollar mindset in the community, and literally make a new trailer promoting this mindset and literally kill your sausage people in a lighthearted way in the trailer and end with saying you're going a new path with playermodels or reveal the new default models that aren't sausage people.
I think these things could steadily win people back, show that you're listening, and get rid of this games depiction of it being a crpytobro hustlers game.
A competent team would put out a few proof of concept games to show that their engine and platform aren't utter dogshit only fit for pumping out slop. A Vampire Survivors clone, an idle clicker, a social fishing hangout, a simple dungeon crawler, a fucking gacha, ANYTHING would be better than throwing this thing out the door and expecting the community to do literally all of the work. They're Bethesda levels of arrogant and it seems they're Bethesda levels of delusional and retarded as well. Fuck you Garry
A competent team would put out a few proof of concept games to show that their engine and platform aren't utter dogshit only fit for pumping out slop. A Vampire Survivors clone, an idle clicker, a social fishing hangout, a simple dungeon crawler, a fucking gacha, ANYTHING would be better than throwing this thing out the door and expecting the community to do literally all of the work. They're Bethesda levels of arrogant and it seems they're Bethesda levels of delusional and retarded as well. Fuck you Garry
Great news! Every game idea you threw out has been made in S&box. Problem: none of them are good. Nobody using the engine has The Vision. Even if they were free, there are more imaginative and enjoyable takes on all of those things on other platforms.
They started a game jam to try and draw up interaction and a playerbase and doubled their playercount! to 600, and its already falling.
They will continue to not understand and can't fathom the fact their game isn't doing well because of everything they don't want to change for some reason. Another game jam! Let's try and get people who still play rust for some reason to go to a completely different genre of game! That will certainly work! Lets keep the sausage models that everyone hates! Lets keep the shitty microtransactions on a $20 Now 10 DOLLAR game! Lets continue down the path of adult Roblox instead of Garrys Mod 2 like everyone wanted!
Linux support is genuinely a good move, credit where credit's due, but it doesn't change that there's basically no reason to purchase or play this game at this time.
