First of all I am happy that there is work going on the Marketplace, but I find this move of removing reviews very bad.
I would like to peacefully raise the attention of a few points:
- I learned about this marketplace change via my official discord, from buyers unhappy with this decision.
A notice with a more official statement via email would have been appreciated, at least for content creators. I don’t follow the forum and I don’t think you can expect marketplace creators to follow the forum assiduously.
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I think reviews are one of the store’s latest problems, I don’t understand how it jumped to the top of the need to remove them suddenly without warning and without an “updated” version at the door.
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Piracy cannot be defeated, it is a fairly well known thing, but it can certainly be limited or made life difficult.
The key next to a username was the only thing that could help us creators to identify who had bought the product or not so that we could help a user who legitimately bought a product and why not, also offer better loyalty with promotions or benefits.
it’s marketing and I absolutely don’t see anything wrong with it, the problem is that Unreal Engine Marketplace doesn’t offer adequate tools to make it simple and fair to everyone.
This change, even if momentary, is pro-piracy.
4. As mentioned above, the unreal engine marketplace has a lot of problems, well I wouldn’t really call them “problems” but complications;
4.1 Marketing tools for Bundles/Packs
As a content creator I offer Single Products, Bundle & Pack, this to meet as much as possible the needs of buyers with different economic possibilities.
The fact that to make a bundle of products, previously approved and published, have to go through all the approval phases again is really tedious.
4.2 Diversification of licenses.
Something similar:
Personal - Standard License
Commercial License
Study License
This should be placed at the top of the changes to be made to the marketplace, simply because it would be convenient for everyone.
4.3 Discount marketing tools
Give us the ability to make custom discount coupons, set % discounts and stuff like that
I also use ArtStation as a assets developer, just copy that style of store for content creator tools.
EDIT: Forgotten but not least, for heaven’s sake do something about the 2D AI-generated assets sold on the store.
With that said thank you for all your hard work. I love Unreal Engine and everyone work at Epic Games. Take all this feedback positively, if we “get angry” (with respect) it’s because we care