More radical changes beyond just giving the characters necks are coming to Garry's Mod successor s&box. Facepunch Studios' game creation platform's launch in April was met with a swarm of negative reviews, complaints of AI slop filling its user-generated game collection, and swiftly plummeting user numbers.
Now creator Garry Newman is reversing course on some of his decisions, such as pivoting to a 'greenlight type system' for user-generated games and announcing that the platform is going free to play much earlier than expected.
"Our focus has been on the engine and the development experience. That’s what we love, that’s what turns us on—but we’re not selling an engine, we’re selling a game," Newman wrote this week. "So we need to do much much better on the game, we need to shift our focus to what players are experiencing, not developers."
That focus, Newman said, will be on improving the sandbox mod...
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