Pushing on Epic to react is in many cases the only thing that can be done and is a fine first step, I do not think we should stop pushing on them until they correct the issue. If they would like us to stop complaining about crap perhaps they should stop shoveling crap
And then with Heathen anyway (my group)
We are preparing to pull our assets off the store Jan 1
Epic did respond on this post via @Unreal_Josh however those are just words and in a months time (just about) we haven’t seen any action. The fact that its a holiday period is not a sufficient excuse. Either FAB is a professional store in which case this is a critical item to be handled as such or they are a problematic outlet in which case we wont be working with them.
And finally (to each there own) but we do not recommend FAB and advise against its use actively. This isn’t meant as an attempted punishment or anything its simply that FAB is unfit for purpose and at the moment outright risky for a legitimate team to be using, be they a team looking to license assets for a project or a a team looking to publish assets for sale.
So to summarize
- Continue to report every issue you see, and expect a response, no they won’t give a response each time but they should and that should be your expectations
- If its within your capacity I really wouldn’t recommend shipping product on FAB at the moment. Its like shipping products on Wish dot com even if you’re legit your rubbing elbows with obvious crap.
- If you have a community inform them about your intent and your reasoning so they can make an informed decision of their own
We have a community of a few thousand indie devs that have shipped a couple hundred games and we have made it clear that while we like Epic and the idea of FAB the current store is a problem and is not fit for purpose. We have warned that we will exit the store on Jan 1 if critical issues which we have outlined are not addressed and we have put in solutions for anyone that has licensed on the store already advising anyone who hasn’t licensed via FAB to not use FAB but use one of the other available channels.
Come Jan 1
We will review the state of things, if reasonable action has been taken (not just words that is not good enough) then we will delist and that will be that.