I forgot to post this blog, so thanks to the naggers in the comments for reminding me. For those that don’t know what this is – GMod was on sale a week or two ago. It was half price. So here’s how it went.
The guys at Valve sent me an email at the end of the sale with all the stats and graphs and stuff. It was pretty cool, and has made this blog post a lot easier to write since now I don’t have to go and work it all out for myself.
The 8 days before the sale GMod sold 2,975 units, in the 8 days during the sale GMod sold 34,927 units. Because it was 50% off, we kind of needed at least a 200% rise in sales for it to justifty itself.. The actual rise was 1074%.
Here’s one of the pretty graphs that Valve sent.
Nice to see that the game still sells fucking good :)
Wow, just wow.
Leave it at 50% off then if it generates more profit.
Firstly appox don’t be a businessman. Secondly congrats Garry, £174,635 in a few days isn’t bad work, though i’m not sure how much you get from that.
That is FUCKING incredible.
selling like sandbox cakes!
Nice extra bit of pocket money there.
Holy shit!
So that’s about 390k units sold
I see you had really good 8 days ;)
You’re a dick garry :(
@appox It’s only made such a profit because of the timed element – see the big spike towards the end of the sale? People going “Oh it ends tomorrow, better grab it!”
Smurfy – learn to read graphs…now look at it again and try figure out where you’re wrong.
What impressed me the most is the fact that this week is responsible to 9% of the total Gmod sales, while it was only 0.78% of the total time that gmod is being sold.
nicely done.
Well, now you know how to make money..
Big updates and 50% sales. :)
appox, people think “Oh lol I’ll just wait until that game goes on sale, what a deal.”
But if Garry left it at 50% then it wouldn’t be special and there would be no need to rush to buy it.
It’s all about pressure :).
And grats Garry but please, please, please… now that you have a bigger player base, test your fucking update script because sometimes it is so bad that Garrysmod doesn’t run :/
richie rich garry ! How many have units have you sold OVERALL then since the 11/29/2006 release where i bought my copy?
Thats just awesome! :D
But whats with all the small spikes in the top graph?
KA-CHING! $:)
Damn that’s impressive.
PS was sale your or Valve’s idea?
Cha-Cheeng.
Whoop… prepare for an influx of new players [read: noobs] as they discover multiplayer.
ITS SHOPPED, BIATCH!!
Make the sales more frequent, maybe one ever quarter.
That means there’s gunna be ALOT of people were gunna have to be prepared for. Although its good, its not the best of time in the gmod community for alot of people to be joining new.
Grats Garry!
You called me a nagger.
Racist.
Nicely done, that’s a total of about 1,9 million dollars for you, Garry.
Probs why you stopped torrents, this is great for us because it means your gunna fix things…right?
Nice looking graph. Valve just perfects everything.
Oh holy shit! That’s incredible. Sales record and almost 1/10th of your current sales. 5% of your total Gmod income in one week. Damn.
See: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001293.html
Moulde: The small spikes are there because people are more likely to buy the game on a weekend. Notice that there are two spikes for each labelled point on the graph. Every second week is labelled.
You needed a 100% _RISE_ in sales, not 200. :eng101:
Garry uses money as toilet paper.
And he uses toilet paper as money.
FACT
You made £87,000 in eight days. Fucking jesus christ almighty.
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Son of a bitch likes to cheat on your fretta server in the gamemode Suicide Barrels. he shoots through walls and shitz D:
How can the game still have constant sales?
It’s been out ages!
:O
That’s awesome, imagine if you gave it away for free man.
I thought you would have access to Steamworks garry and be able to see these stats directly? Or is that something else.
Wow lots of cheapskates on steam
So you made $87,000 on that sale?
I have always wondored how much you actually make in profit off of one cop of gmod?
Correction: Garry made about £54,486 ($87,112)
200% increase?
Let’s say you usually sell 5 copies and get 5$ each. Now you sell 100% more (10 copies) and get 2.50$ each. Both are 25$. 100% increase in sales already justifies the sale.
You know what I meant dummies
Garry newman owns :D
Maybe it’s because i’m Dutch, but isn’t it a bit of a stupid question to ask how much money someone makes ?
I know it’s interesting to know about salesfigures and such, but personally I think 99% of the people here just want to know the contents of Garry’s wallet.
Funny enough, those are probably the people that had their parents buy a copy of Gmod for them. No pun intended here.
Yeah i said “Probably” ..
anyways, congrats Garry, I like boats incase you’re wondering what to buy me ;)
@earthHunter
Ahhh, ofc :) Thanks
GARRY are you planning having another Q+A session anytime soon? I always find those fascinating to hear from a successful indie dev. Very interesting for a game designer like meself.
so, that’s almost two million dollars total Garry.
Shouldn’t you be retiring on your wise investment choices?
2975 units is already much, if you get 5$ per sale.
2975 * 10.74 is about 31950
31950 times 2.5$…
holy shit Garry just got 79,878$ richer if my calculations are right.
You, sir, are one rich person.
God damn. i would kill to have your life
Very nice, you should continue doing sales now and then ;)
Also guys, remember that Valve/Steam gets some of the money. Was it 50%? I think I read that on a previous blog post.
Yeah.
I always thought that 10€ for a mod is too much so i also took the chance to got gmod for half the price… and in believe MANY MORE thought exactly the same.
Hope that you continue selling gmod for 5 bucks.
BTW: Only thing that bugs me is that its very unclear for a noob how to install addons or gamemodes the correct way… i wont call me a noob but it took me 3 retries until i finally got Wired and phx instlled and working!
The svn tutorial has some mistakes in it!
Maybe that should be reviewed asap.
i bought it 50% sale, payed something like 5€
so thats a nice ca. 174635€ in one week…
i wouldn”t complain either if i where garry…
curious how much you got from tha amount ;)
[...] Mod Sale Stats Garry has released the sales figures for his mod-turned-retail ‘Garry’s [...]
That many sales and still no linux server…
According to this newspost (http://www.garry.tv/?p=327) Garry gets 50% of the income.
9 % of the sales = 34927 units
-> 1 % of the sales = (34927 / 9) = 3880 units
-> 91 % of the sales = (3880 * 91) = 353080 units
-> 100 % of the sales = (3880 * 100) = 388000 units
91 % of the units where sold at $ 9.99.
-> 50 % of $ 9.99 = $ 4.99 (income per sale for Garry)
-> $ 4.99 * 353080 units (91 %) = $ 1,761,869
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9 % of the units where sold at $ 4.99.
-> 50 % of $ 4.99 = $ 2.49 (income per sale for Garry)
-> $ 2.49 * 34927 units (9 %) = $ 86,968
= $ 1,848,837 (income for Garry) for 388000 units sold!
Cool to see the patterns, bump in sales during Christmas etc.