Oh yeah, he nuked that massive repository of technical information, memes, artwork, addons… etc… like, … over a decade ago now?
EDIT:
Sorry, just realized this is a high enough level comment that I shouldn’t wall of text the entire thread.
Commentary!
There are now you know, new Facepunch forums, and I am 99% sure if you talked with Garry or a dev or a forum mod on the new ones, they would just gaslight you and act like the old Facepunch forums never existed, or weren’t important, or that happened eons ago why do you care, etc.
And yes, yeah, Garrys Mod did completely get passed up by other platforms/games.
Back in the early-mid 201x’s, you had a large number of GMod servers, running gamemodes, that also talked to some kind of mySQL server, that then also talked to a website/forum/storefront.
You sign up on the website, give your SteamID, and then either through paypal on the website or something, purchase access to some kind of on server in game content or ability or player class or whatever.
People made all that shit on their own, I helped a few people with their own / my own API layers amd DB configs … my initial idea was to just use a secondary SQL database to be able to have like uh, a bunch of items on the map or in container objects in the map, or player inventories and stats… it just made more sense to handle dormant but potentially usable/interactable items … not actually constantly in the main server think loop (especially not as physics objects JFC).
It was basically an optimization, from my point of view, to run a large/complex map/gamemode.
But others quickly figured out that you could literally monetize in game items via basically further developing a bridge between the game server and not the game server.
(Hilariously, you could maybe say that this constitutes a precursor to the NFT-ingameitem paradigm that would later at least be ‘theorized’ by a bunch of even less technically competent people, lol, as very often, those in game items could be stolen from a player in game, or traded for some other in game item, via basically rp or a runescape-esque player trading system, etc)
I’m… still pretty sure that was all illegal, running a server that accepts real money… you don’t own the rights to the game in that way, but oh well I guess!
Anyway yeah, Garry hated that other people were making money this way, but then eventuslly decided that… he wanted to do that!
So everyone with a pioneering method is now either part of his clique and working with him… or all their shit gets nuked.
He is a massively unscrupulous incompetent hypocrite asshat.
Garry is fundamentally a troll.
Like… he’d very often spend more time in flame wars on his own forum… than doing actual development.
Oh yeah, he nuked that massive repository of technical information, memes, artwork, addons… etc… like, … over a decade ago now?
EDIT:
Sorry, just realized this is a high enough level comment that I shouldn’t wall of text the entire thread.
Commentary!
There are now you know, new Facepunch forums, and I am 99% sure if you talked with Garry or a dev or a forum mod on the new ones, they would just gaslight you and act like the old Facepunch forums never existed, or weren’t important, or that happened eons ago why do you care, etc.
And yes, yeah, Garrys Mod did completely get passed up by other platforms/games.
Back in the early-mid 201x’s, you had a large number of GMod servers, running gamemodes, that also talked to some kind of mySQL server, that then also talked to a website/forum/storefront.
You sign up on the website, give your SteamID, and then either through paypal on the website or something, purchase access to some kind of on server in game content or ability or player class or whatever.
People made all that shit on their own, I helped a few people with their own / my own API layers amd DB configs … my initial idea was to just use a secondary SQL database to be able to have like uh, a bunch of items on the map or in container objects in the map, or player inventories and stats… it just made more sense to handle dormant but potentially usable/interactable items … not actually constantly in the main server think loop (especially not as physics objects JFC).
It was basically an optimization, from my point of view, to run a large/complex map/gamemode.
But others quickly figured out that you could literally monetize in game items via basically further developing a bridge between the game server and not the game server.
(Hilariously, you could maybe say that this constitutes a precursor to the NFT-ingameitem paradigm that would later at least be ‘theorized’ by a bunch of even less technically competent people, lol, as very often, those in game items could be stolen from a player in game, or traded for some other in game item, via basically rp or a runescape-esque player trading system, etc)
I’m… still pretty sure that was all illegal, running a server that accepts real money… you don’t own the rights to the game in that way, but oh well I guess!
Anyway yeah, Garry hated that other people were making money this way, but then eventuslly decided that… he wanted to do that!
So everyone with a pioneering method is now either part of his clique and working with him… or all their shit gets nuked.
He is a massively unscrupulous incompetent hypocrite asshat.
Garry is fundamentally a troll.
Like… he’d very often spend more time in flame wars on his own forum… than doing actual development.