News: Millions of dollars will take the edge off Rust worries, says Newman

Success has come fast, but the studio is taking nothing for granted.

Rust has sold over a million copies within two months of going on sale and the game is only in Alpha, Facepunch Studios has announced.

However, the game's creator Garry Newman says this success puts more pressure on delivering what the fans want.

"Saying we're surprised is a total understatement," Newman told Polygon. "We never expected Rust to ever sell over a million copies, to sell over a million within a couple of months while still in really early development is insane to us."

He added: "Selling this many copies isn't without worries. Will these millions of people expect us to evolve the game in the ways we're going to evolve it? Will we be able to make them happy?"

Newman continued: "If something good like this happens, I'm expecting it all to turn to shit at any minute. Like the good things that happen are just the set up to a punch line of massive failure. So we're trying not to take anything for granted."

That said, Newman is feeling pretty positive about things.

"The tens of millions of dollars [may] take the edge off slightly, but we still have these worries," he added.

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