Announcing Fab, an Evolution of the Unreal Engine Marketplace

[spacegojira]

Thanks for the answers Josh.

@Unreal_Josh

I think there’s a place for AI generated content in Fab, just as there is currently in UE Marketplace. Marketplace, ArtStation, and Sketchfab all require that sellers identify when AI is used in content creation, and Fab will provide strong discovery tools to help buyers find the type of content they want.

That’s disappointing, I have a friend who wanted to sell 2D handpainted sprites and background images on the Unreal Marketplace, but when he looked at it he just gave up that idea, because his content would be drowned out by all the AI generated assets that are currently flooding the marketplace.

Will you at least give us an option to “hide” AI generated content then? Otherwise eventually the 2D section of the marketplace will contain nothing but AI generated stuff, I’m not sure if that is something you guys would find preferable.

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@Unreal_Josh

We’re not going to announce the details of the Fab review system yet, but we know that ownership verification is important to sellers, just as the legitimacy of reviews are important. The two things should not be intertwined. Also, the use of 5 star reviews just for ownership verification for discord is not allowed on UE Marketplace, and can be reported.

If you are not taking action directly yourself, the review abuse will just continue in FAB, regardless of the rules.
I personally know of certain sellers that KNOW reviews for Discord access is not allowed, yet they continue to ask their users for it. There will always be people who abuse a system for their own benefit.
And I also know of a bunch of marketplace sellers who actually do NOT know that reviews for Discord access is against the rules, despite them being sellers for over a year already.

I hope you can take that into consideration when you are planning the review system and prevention of abuse in FAB.

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@Unreal_Josh

We’re working towards a system that captures past feedback and the reputation that sellers have earned. We will need to reconcile that with integrating other storefronts, and we want to provide an easy and intuitive way to provide products. We’ll have more information on this prior to launch.

If you carry over reviews, please only carry over the new “written” reviews and their ratings.
The “legacy” reviews should just be abandoned, as a user / customer can not understand why an asset has 5 positive ratings but only one written review, which is negative / critical of the asset.
The legacy ratings do not represent the current state of an asset anymore and it’s bad if they make it seem an asset is perfect, while the asset isn’t properly working anymore in UE5 for example or the support has stopped.

Preferably, a review should contain a minimum amount of text and be “multi-staged”, aka rate different parts of an asset like documentation, support or “clean code”.
That would be a first step towards preventing review abuse.

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@Unreal_Josh

We want to make asset management easy and convenient, no matter what tools a customer is using. Fab is engine agnostic, so acquiring and managing content won’t be limited to the current UE experience.

That sounds like good news, I am looking forward to see what changes in this regard.