I feel the game isn't mature enough yet to warrent having to pay for it, needs a bit more polish.
As a throught when it is more mature hampa should look into releasing it on steam or something similar.

There are a few basicly one man games out there though that are alot more advanced than this, the roller coaster tycoon series I think is basicly done by one guy(atleast the first 2 in the series). There is also this game http://www.fl-tw.com/Infinity/index.php (a fully procedually generated galaxy with smooth space to planet transitions) which all the programming is done by one guy in his free time

I'm sure there will be enough players, players that have stolen it of Emule. :P

Tombot breaks it down.
To finish the Garry's mod argument:
Garry's mod will only be $10, but for howmany people?

Everone in the world.

I will be getting a copy, as will many more people. Lets make a low estimate at 50'000 people. Garry suddenly earned $500'000 (minus whatever of that $10 valve take for having it on Steam).

Toribash does not have 50'000 people. Call it 250 people.

Yes, this is one of problems.

At $24 each, that is $6000.
With server costs being $300 per month

The servers in half life are often hosted on the home computers themselves, so it saves money. it would save money if Toribash helped to do this by having means of online play, but I digress.

Toribash will be break even after 20 months, or just over 1.5 years.

Bam, more doom.

This does not include any money Hampa decides to take for himself to live and eat for his hard work.

This should not have to be a concern

Now for Garry's mod: $500'000 and call it $600 per month (unlikely) for servers (since they will be more powerful to handle the extra traffic). just short of 69.5 years. Who here is ripping everyone off?

Not them certainly, infact its the god damn community that keeps Gmod afloat, ands they don't piss people by removing and Lobotomising the previous versions of itself.

Garry's mod only uses the Half Life 2 engine, and just allows you to add your own stuff in-game. Garry's mod is nothing more than a few scripted menus.

WRONG!

*windows break, glass shatters and so on*

Gmod is much more than you could possibly assume it to be, Garry has put a lot of work into making sure everything works correctly and has put a lot of time of Refining the code and adjusting the very core of the half life two engine. you are wrong.

No physics engine, no graphics engine - they are all HL2.

Wrong again.

Toribash is a full game, physics, graphics, everything was made by Hampa. Garry scripted a few things, and he was lucky that it caught on and became so popular

Wrong again, Garrys mod built it when another similair mod existed to test what the half life two engine was capable of, it 'caught on' because it was genuinly unique and people supported it at every stage with much more devotion than here.

(so he added more stuff).

Lots and lots and lots of people added more stuff you Bigot.

Hampa has already done more than Garry.

Do you ever tire of bieng wrong? :