It's the day after the release of S&box, the successor to the legendary sandbox game Garry's Mod: Reviews are mixed, complaints are plentiful, player numbers are a fraction of Garry's Mod, and Facepunch Studios says in a post-release update that everything is going "pretty much exactly as expected."
"The backend went down once or twice. One time we accidentally DDOS'ed ourselves, and one time we had to scale some services to meet demand," studio boss Garry Newman wrote. "As it usually is in these scenarios, the services that got overwhelmed weren't the ones we had considered at all.
