Since we started the development of Cloudscape Seasons and for the UE4 Marketplace, we have few goals in mind:
- make something nice to have for learning purposes for any gamedev
- make something visually compelling
- understand how the marketplace works
- understand how people feel about the assets being sold there
those goals were quite interesting and sort of reached. We discovered few things about it:
- the marketplace were created with the introduction of UE4, this means 5 years and it lacks several features asked since day one, which is sad;
- the lack of tools available in the marketplace make it very difficult to be considered a source of income for a living;
- poor actions related to content piracy;
- bad quality reviews for several assets;
- poor design decisions on every (and sparse) action of improvement towards the marketplace;
Although the experience overall is positive as a learning perspective and we will still offer several assets under development at the UE4 Marketplace, but we think that to prevent certain experiences, we will create our own store in the near feature, coming right next to the release of our new website along with the new brand for the new company.
To have a closure on this experience, we will do some actions we think are nice and everyone would be happy with:
- starting November/2019 the Cloudscape Seasons will have its price cut by 50% permanently;
- all owners of Cloudscape Seasons will be eligible to a FREE copy of Sky Seasons (when it launches) for all purchases made from October/2017 up to October/2019 only;
Thanks everyone of the 500+ UE4 developers involved in this experience, being as purchasers, Youtube subs, twitter followers, Discord members, we really do appreciate!