Free To Play Or Priced?

• Easily accessable to anyone on PC and the steam platform.
• A way to quickly get a ton of players and high player count for s&box.
• Another way to softly push the idea of cosmetic microtransactions to support item creators and create s&box's initial play fund revenue stream to payout map and game developers and creators.
• Make it incredibly easy to make the games you want and export them as standalone basically for free.
• Could be seen as a Roblox competitor which is a bit more advanced in game creation tools and ease of access to creating games for it's platform.

• Low price around $10 to $15 dollars USD for each purchase of s&box
• Quicker way to to immediately create s&box's play fund revenue pool on launch (since as of developer preview gmod's revenue is currently funding s&box's developement)
• Prevents mass adoption (this is something Garry has mentioned he's a bit weary of and can possibly prevent by putting the game as a set price)
• Could possibly prevent bad actors from making new steam accounts to instantly download s&box and exploit, hack or abuse possible systems in the game (this was a talking point I've heard in the community some people say would be a problem with F2P and possibly could be solved with being paid? I'd probably need to be more informed about how this could happen with being F2P)
• Gives you access to essentially a game engine and platform for a small price

The game should be free to play, it already has monetization options built within the system to purchase cosmetics that benefit developers, and 10% scm fee for every transaction. 

Also garry if you're reading this discussion, if you want to instill market confidence and have your users continue to purchase items in the store you mustn't re-introduce previous items that are taken off the store (unless there's good reason.) You mentioned that face tattoo & neck tattoo will be coming back and not to "go apeshit buying at crazy prices" that's ultimately your decision, but there has already been 2 sales for Hard Hat on the scm of $1150 and $339.25. If you want a prosperous long-term digital economy you might need to work on developing a system that keeps people in the ecosystem, if too many people get burnt on speculating it'll leave a sour taste, of course its more nuanced and there's multiple avenues of doing things, but its the safest way of long-term success.

Game being paid is fine, though I do wonder if people who don't care about the platform and just want the engine are going to have to pay.

so until they remove the steam FOMO market the game will remain poorly and unethically monetised.

F2P == Roblox competitor 

Paid of Price == UE/Unity competitor