Garry Newman answers s&box criticism in long YouTube reply
Garry Newman has replied at length to a critical s&box video, acknowledging the game's troubled first months while insisting he is too stubborn to give up.
Facepunch founder Garry Newman has answered a pointed critique of s&box directly, posting a long reply beneath a YouTube video from creator Eridium titled "S&box's Free To Play Weekend Isn't Enough." The user-generated content platform, pitched as a successor to Garry's Mod for the Roblox era, has spent its first five months on the market struggling to hold an audience. In his comment Newman conceded that several criticisms carried weight, addressing the unpopular character design, the weak first impression the game makes and the flood of low-quality and AI-made projects that make good work hard to find.
Newman, whose studio also made Garry's Mod and Rust, framed the response around persistence rather than defensiveness, saying he is stubborn and dislikes giving up on things. He has previously played down the problem of low-effort uploads in interviews. Eridium's video also argued that Facepunch should have delayed the release and that its community outreach has been thin. The exchange has renewed discussion about how a platform built on player-made content keeps quality visible once automated tools make publishing trivial.
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