Reading all of this is really disheartening. Epic Games has for the longest time been my hands-down favourite developer alongside Westwood*(RIP)*. But seeing all of this it just feels like an absolute and utter disregard for people trying to make their engine more appealing to indie devs and like Chrisis said - hobbyists.
I applaud Epic for wanting to maintain superb quality something of which they are probably most reputable for, but sometimes great or even good is enough. But content creators should not have to wait months upon months to hear anything regarding their submissions. I can understand giving a timeframe is hard, but flatout ignoring them is nothing other than despicable. And you’re doing it to people that help make your engine even better and more versatile.
This is the first time I think anything that Epic does is pathetic and outright disgusting. This whole process MUST be re-organized. Submissions taking longer to be reviewed is obvious, but updates to content already on the marketplace should not take weeks upon weeks. You’re asking people that help you make revenue to spend even more time and effort solely to comply with unrealistic guidelines. No wonder so many projects aren’t seeing updates anymore, they lose motivation and move on to other things. The only one here to blame is Epic for poor management of guidelines and requirements for assets to be accepted and/or updated.