Garry's Mod is no longer a game, it's a business to manipulate children and your wallet.

By Zuldwyn

EDIT: I would like to give a special thanks out to CGC for proving my point, please refer to the picture of my ban from their server below in the Claymore Gaming section.



I just felt i had to say something because this game at this point has become utterly awful with all the greed server owners feel they have a right to do. As i'm sure everyone is aware garry's mod is no longer a relaxed game where everyone can be happy with each other, it's now pay to win on any server that you play on no matter what. You can pay to be admin, to get items, to ban people on some servers or even get unbanned yourself. It's just become a scheme to get money easily since all the kids will gladly eat up the server owners ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and get their parents to pay for ranks in servers.



One of the most horrendous servers in terms of monetization would have to be Claymore Gaming which is a Fallout RP server, and holy mother of god is the monetization on this puppy horrendous. I in fact used to play on this server years ago but stopped playing, every now and then for humor i check their websites shop and every time i do the prices increase because it becomes more and more acceptable and they see that people continually buy everything no matter the cost. Hell, they are charging $1000 USD to make your own faction in their server, you read that damn right $1000 big ones for borderline nothing and all they have to do is add a couple lines of code if even to their server and call it a day.



This isn't the only server doing this kind of blatant manipulation of children, all of them do it and it continually gets worse since no one is doing anything to bring attention to it. I've never in any game seen monetization get this bad, hell even mobile games are better. EA looks like a damn angelic force compared to this level of horrid garbage. Everyone in the Garry's Mod community needs to speak up and not let children be manipulated in this fashion anymore. Sure, it's not only kids buying into this stuff but that doesn't matter this should not be acceptable by any means but the community keeps and keeps on feeding these greedy "businesses/servers" you can't really call them communities or anything of that sort anymore because they have 1 goal and 1 goal only, to make as much money as possible no matter how many lives they wreck in their path. While yes, making money is always a goal you don't find EA's microtransactions acceptable do you? So what makes this anymore different, ask yourself that and realize that the game we all once knew and loved has been tainted and corrupted by these filth. I miss my old Garry's Mod, don't you?





If you want to do something to try and fix this, stop buying ranks on servers or donating as well as upvoting this guide in order to make it more visible. The only time you should be donating if the server obviously has love and care put into it with reasonable prices in order to not rob you of all you're worth. Make sure you inform others as well of this issue, nothing will change if you all stand idly by allowing this to happen. We are all guilty of donating to these scummy servers, myself included but you need to realize that it's not worth it.





Feel free to contact me on steam if you feel that you think i missed something on this guide or a specific server with microtranactions that are extreme that should be called out. Or if you feel that i am wrong in some points, i can fully able to accept criticism as long as it doesn't devolve into an argument as once has already happened here.



