What’s EVEN WORSE is UE Marketplace users had good content (that was moderated) and they had a good permissive license to use that content, and now everything we purchased over the past decade on UE Marketplace we have now lost and has been “converted” to crappy licenses instead of “Professional” licenses, we now have “standard” crap so we lost all our assets / professional licenses that we previously had and paid for, and now we lost our professional /studio licenses and instead of a crappy “standard” license and are forced to “re-buy” all our assets / licenses on FAB (for over $100K licensing) and it makes everyone stay away from FAB and stay away from FAB licensing.
Every single “standard” license should be good for $10 Million in annual revenue and should be a “professional” license. The term “standard” should be changed to “professional” and the annual revenue should be increased to $10 Mil per year.
Then create a “studio license” (and charge people more for a “studio” license). For studios with more than 20 employees. That way indie’s and individuals can stick with “professional” licenses, and studios can pay more for a “studio” license. but this current nonsense is a complete licensing nightmare, and everyone that purchased assets / licenses from UE Marketplace got completely screwed with this whole “FAB” migration, and we should get the highest license available (Studio License) AUTOMATICALLY on any and all assets purchased in the UE Marketplace, and not crappy “standard” garbage license (a downgrade). We should automatically get a “Studio License” for all assets that we were purchased in the UE Marketplace (a “Studio License” in FAB), and bring back the UE Marketplace where UE Developers want to focus on just looking at UE assets and environments and don’t want this “hodge podge” mess (FAB) that is kinda like a Sketchup (instead of a Unreal Engine specific UE Marketplace). Unity still has their Unity Store (specific for Unity) and EPIC was foolish for DESTROYING the UE Marketplace and trying to combine / merge everything into this “FAB” mess / catastrophe and also screwing over all the UE Marketplace customers that purchased assets (under the old simple permissive UE Marketplace License) and got screwed by this new “FAB” license models and we should have a “UE Marketplace License” option so that we can retain our old UE Marketplace Licenses, instead of this garbage “Standard” crap license.
We basically lost ALL our assets and purchases in the UE Marketplace during this FAB migration, and our licenses have been converted to “standard” which is useless to us, and we can’t use “Standard” licenses. This has been a nightmare, and a licensing nightmare, and another reason to NEVER USE FAB.
Bring back the old UE Marketplace, and this whole FAB nonsense is ridiculous. Make them two separate Marketplaces, and allow sellers (and buyers) to still buy and sell on the UE Marketplace (under the old UE Marketplace license) and allow us to keep our old UE Marketplace assets, and keep the old UE Marketplace storefront. It was much easier to buy and sell under the old UE Marketplace and to have the ratings (from customers) and to have comments / reviews by customers. With no comments and no reviews, and we can’t even discuss problems about assets (or warn buyers) it makes it scary to even purchase an asset on FAB when a seller has abandoned the assets.