Six years ago today, Garry’s Mod 10 went up for sale.
On the 29th November 2006 it sold 5,700 copies. This was a huge huge number at the time, I could not believe it could possibly sell that much. When it first went on sale it actually knocked Steam offline temporarily. A few weeks later it was selling around 300 copies a day. In that first year it sold 147,666 copies. Wow!
Six years and 153 updates later it’s averaging about 1,200 sales a day.. and on the 22nd of November it sold 38,511 copies. In the last year it sold 716,632 copies!
I scratch my head now - because 5,700 copies doesn’t seem like that much. But it must have been a lot back then - because Valve sent me a hat made out of actual money to celebrate (for the record it was made out 700 GBP).
Happy Birthday Garry’s Mod!
