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.
