Well, it is not productive discuss ahead, but I have purchased NeOcean (which I was happy with) and got it refunded by Epic. I asked them and they told me it was taked down because of copyright issues, I got the e-mails as proof and even the purchase receipt. I have made myself some videos about NeOcean and posted the results on twitter and with my assets in the marketplace, as a mean to show how the reflection worked well, just to see myself promoting an asset with copyright issues that let me to take down my posts and videos. I was encouraging Johnathan in his posts, we exchanged e-mail and offered him help, but them he LIED to me telling about what he copied and I ended checking the material myself to confirm that was not only what he told me about.
The “us” in my previous post was @WellActually from the marketplace team giving the info for by e-mail. The asset was not taken down because of me, because of @EvoPulseGaming or . We just knew about it way after. The person to fill the complaint with Epic was @ or someone else, maybe both.
I didn’t mention in any post that I had access to any asset or when, so you can’t infer if that happened or when happened. I didn’t purchase OceanX, but I did purchase NeOcean and the copyright infringement was blunt, the buoyancy, the meshes for the plane still had the original import information point the original creator (which was not Johnathan), comments, variable names, things that I confirmed only when the asset went down, not earlier.
I feel the complaints you brought are fair regarding the fact that there is no good blueprint water shader in the marketplace, and that the plugin ones lacks features, but you are encouraged to base your work on whatever source and create it for your own use, several people just purchase assets on the marketplace as a start point, they change it for their use, but they are not allowed to sell it, which is also Epic’s MP rules. Of course depending on the amount of changes it might reach to a point a product might start to look so different, that might become hard to tell if it is based of not on something.
I hope I clarified the points, because otherwise I feel we might start being moderated in the thread, which would not serve at all the community or us. So, if any moderator find any comment here are misplaced, I will not complain.