I wonder if in these past 11 years and 3 days anyone at Epic has felt even a tiny bit of love for the Vault (now rebranded as My Library in Fab).
I mean… a company making over $5 billion in 2024 couldn’t at least hire someone on Fiverr to show that section a little love?
Please! It doesn’t even have the same filters as the rest of the store.
The Vault feels like that construction project you start with all the excitement in the world — you put up four walls… and then just leave it there, with bricks scattered around, cement dried up, and the ladder still standing.
Meanwhile, the store has brand-new windows, a terrace, and even a heated swimming pool. #VaultNeedsLove
Looking for something to buy: everything’s easy and convenient:
Once it’s in your library: “Well, find it yourself, it’s your problem.”
On the roadmap they made recently it says the vault is being deprecated once fab desktop comes to the launcher, they want to replace it entirely with the fab library system instead. I think it said at some point they will just remove it entirely but for the foreseeable future you will be able to choose between using fab library and vault.
This makes more sense, as they have been updating the fab library since its release with new features, there is no point in doing updates to something that will be gone in the next 2-5 years.
So, so true, like the black sheep of the family that everyone knows about, but nobody ever talks to, and fat chance of getting a Christmas card from anyone!
Thanks for proving my point
That’s exactly it: Epic is so busy with the 5-year future of the Fab Library that they can’t spare a moment for My Library and poor old Vault.
With the money they’re making, even if they know it’s going to die in 2–5 years, would it really hurt to grab someone on Fiverr for 10 bucks to add the same filters and show it a little love?
Haha, yeah — poor Library doesn’t even have a seat at the table. On the Fab roadmap there isn’t even a section for My Library.
I mean, even just being able to hide or delete items — come on. We’ve been asking for that for, what, 9 years at least?
Well the epic games launcher not only contains massive amounts of proprietary internal code, assets and access to user data, but is also likely millions of lines of code, the vault isn’t something a 10 dollar programmer from Pakistan can work on. The vault works, and outside of plugins you don’t have to use it as they have fab in editor already. Diverting resources from what matters to something that’s gonna be thrown away in a few months is a huge waste of time and resources.
There is an argument to be had for fab launching too early which is fair, but saying they should focus resources on the vault or pay contractors for it is a bit unreasonable IMO. Fab desktop will very likely launch this month or next.
Bro, I hope you didn’t actually think my suggestion was serious. It was just a sharp critique about how little Epic cares about the library.
Besides, I never said they should make changes to the launcher’s Vault — if they haven’t done it in 11 years, they’re not going to do it now.
It’s a critique of how the library section has been treated since it was born.
To begin with, they changed the cool name “Vault” to a sad, dull “My Library.”
For 11 years and 8 days they didn’t make a single improvement, not even adding a couple more filters or sorting options. Come on, tell me how many User Story points from a sprint it takes to add two dropdown menus.
And poor thing, it doesn’t even have its own section in the roadmap.
And now with Fab it’s the same story — even after being redesigned from scratch, they still didn’t plan for things we’ve been asking for over a decade (saying “a decade” sounds more impactful than just “10 years”).
This isn’t the first time people have said epic should hire a contractor or community member to add a feature, before wishlists were added I saw multiple people post something similar to what you are posting here, so yeah I thought it was serious. It’s very common for new indies to lowball hiring offers, and I don’t know who you are so I took what you said as serious since there was not really any humor to it.
Even if your Fiverr comment was satire, it still goes back to the same thing I said earlier that it’s a waste of time and resources to work on the vault. Fab desktop is expected to launch in a month or two and will completely deprecate the vault, given how big epic is this likely has been a internal goal for over 2-3 years and the marketplace was never something they devoted a bunch of resources too beforehand since unreal was mostly used by large studios up until Covid era.
The vault does what it needs to do and the fab plugin has been around since around the launch window if you want filters and such.
ChatGPT and Gemini both agree that my comment was sarcastic — you might want to recalibrate your humor sensors.
And really, thanks — but I never asked for changes in the Vault. I don’t need a history and economics lecture about big companies, just for it to be treated better than it has been in recent years.
Gemini also points this out:
The absence of a simple button or filter for so long in the “Vault” interface is exactly the kind of detail that triggers the sarcastic frustration in the first comment. You’re absolutely right. From the user’s point of view, it’s very hard to understand why such a big company can’t add such a basic feature in all that time.
That’s the key disconnect: for the user, it’s a simple design issue that could be solved with a “button.” For the company, as the second commenter argues, it’s a strategic decision. They prioritized building a completely new system (Fab) instead of patching an old one. The cost and time of adding a feature to a system that’s going to be discarded isn’t justified internally.
so, I just hope you don’t use these same policies in your own products, and tell a user you won’t fix a bug because in 11 years you’ll release a better version.
