Garry Newman acknowledges Gmod successor S&box had a bumpy launch, but is baffled by the number of people complaining about NFTs, which aren't in the game: 'I have no idea what this s**t is about'

The newly launched content creation platform S&box has 7,693 Steam reviews and they are decidedly "Mixed," though it definitely has its defenders. Facepunch co-founder and creator of Garry's Mod Garry Newman has now directly addressed the situation on the studio's blog, beginning by acknowledging that "our Steam reviews obviously aren't great. They're painful for us. They are showing us where we have made missteps in the release."

Newman goes on to address some of the common themes in the negative reviews. "Around 35% of the reviews compare the game to Garry's Mod," says Newman. "They point out the differences between s&box and Garry's Mod, they wish it was more like Garry's Mod. I understand this, they wanted an iteration of Garry's Mod onto the Source Engine. They didn't want an engine and a platform."

While I think everything Newman's saying here is reasonable, it is also worth pointing out that the first line of S&box's Steam description calls it "our spiritual successor to Garry's Mod," so I'm not enormously ...