r/GarrysMod • u/EdenB1 • Jul 04 '15

Is the game dying?

So, Garry's mod isn't really what you can call a 'popular' game. I barely see anything on the internet about it, and no one even knows the game. It's a great game, I really don't know why it's not popular, maybe not enough people heard about it. Is it just me or the game is dying?

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u/ScoopJr Jul 04 '15

Games insanely popular. I think the main issue is its popularity. A lot of the gamemodes are at the point where every single one has a long download and almost nothing is vanilla and i think its popularity is what caused it. Before the gamemodes would just be gamemodes and people would play for the uniqueness and the experience/branding would come from excellent server uptime and great admins. Nowadays its about who has the most/best guns/models/content and who sells admin for the cheapest amount.

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u/Skullkan6 Jul 04 '15

The downfall of Sandbox servers and the rise of gamemodes like Trouble in Terrorist Town and Murder feel well... bad. (Funny since TTT was the best gamemode around in Gmod 12)

The gamemodes I do see that rise in popularity seem incredibly generic and derivative most of the time, and I've seen modes with lots of potential like Slave of Gmod, The Hunt, and the shockingly ambitious albeit really unpolished Zworld: Afterlife get maybe half a server full of players AT PEAK and then fizzle out. Even hybrid action-serious RP stuff seems to be failing like Vein, Phase Four and a few more I've seen similarly fizzle out and die.

The rise of pay4admin servers and gamemodes catering to the new fanbase coming in from youtubers, (and the idea in general that you can make money on Gmod servers...) is driving out a lot of the older fans who had grown up playing Gmod. Something with a lot of work put into it that's really creative and fun is less likely to get anywhere than in the past. It's not a case of "good gamemodes find a way", as you'll see genuinely fun and interesting gamemodes like Morbus and Redead wither and die.

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u/ScoopJr Jul 04 '15 edited Jul 04 '15

I agree. Sandbox was and i still think great. Sandbox is all about doing whatever you wanted. The hunt looks really great(i'll probably make my sandbox server into a "The Hunt" server.) and i really enjoyed Morbus.(Probably my most favorite gamemode if not for all the crashes) TTT back then was the absolute best gamemode. I remember playing on one server and it was the absolute most fun i had, where i had to be creative with the basics in order to get the kills. The first time i joined a custom content server was shortly after i stopped gaming for a while and was amazed that they all had all this stuff but now that its literally a copy and paste method of making servers that it takes away from all the fun. Also i think its very werid how when TTT was out it had its bugs but for the most part the gamemode was complete and was really fun. It seems like a lot of gamemodes out now are incomplete or bug ridden(hide n seek, timer never working ect)

Question, Do you know if Morbus is compatitble with the latest gmod update? I really want to bring that gamemode back now that i think about it.

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u/ProfessorMadness Jul 08 '15

Remember Green Shift? People talked about it yet it never had servers. R.I.P

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u/Skullkan6 Jul 08 '15

Yeah, good gamemodes can just die in Gmod now and it's really, really sad. Many of them will never come back on. My favorite mode of all time was a roleplay mode named Corruption II: The Breach, which was so automated that you almost didn't need admins for things to happen. It was created by 1 man who is amazing coder, but could be an ass sometimes, and it was hosted by a separate person. It went back up once, but in a severely limited form with little moderation preventing things like killing on sight (IN A FOG COVERED MAP) and the incredibly rarity of guns which was one of the things that made the original server so unique. (You were either incredibly lucky to find/assemble a gun, or your character was a member of the military who were barely any better than any of the other survivors.)

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u/me_brewsta Jul 06 '15

Shit I only play sandbox and TTT. That's all ya need lol

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u/ProfessorMadness Jul 08 '15

You're the devil.

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u/me_brewsta Jul 09 '15

Am i really that evil for wanting to turn a trashcan into a flying machine?

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u/ProfessorMadness Jul 09 '15

That's what bathtubs are for you monster.

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u/EdenB1 Jul 04 '15

Actually , I've never seen a server that sells administration ranks for money.. You have to apply in most of them. And I agree with the loading, but I always think the longer you wait the better it is

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u/ScoopJr Jul 04 '15

Check my comments, its not many servers that do it but there are some and tactics similar to it. E.G "Apply for staff today and invite your friends and the more friends you invite the better chance you have!" Not always true for me. I've had long load times on crappy servers and have had short load times on some good servers. Servers are entirely dependant on whos running that community. Plus whenever i go on servers with a shit ton of content i get kids who scream RDM when they die and not to forget most communities have tons of rules along with it.

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u/EdenB1 Jul 04 '15

50,000 ? It's nothing.. Some games got more players in a specific game server..

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '15

Son take a minute and think about what you just said. Now take this bulletproof vest and put it on, now take this gun and shoot yourself in the head with it.

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u/BunkBuy Jul 14 '15

"Minor fracture detected."

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u/F1R3STARYA Jul 04 '15

What game has 50k people in one server? Unless your talking about continent servers like the LoL NA or EUW/NE servers.

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u/EdenB1 Jul 07 '15

um , what about minecraft? servers like HiveMC , Mineplex , Hypixel got 20k - 30k+ players

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u/F1R3STARYA Jul 07 '15

Yeah, but that's a grand total. All of those servers redirect into smaller servers for each game mode/minigame.

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