Honestly I think a better solution since not all plugins need to be live service products is to have a “visibility round” feature like steam where users who wishlist or own your product get a blade that says “recently updated” on their front page. I own many plugins that I use often that dont really need new features as they work as intended.
My friend said that having the latest engine version does help with ranking now though.
Let’s say you have 3 plugins and a new Unreal version is coming. 1 plugin gets an update for the new UE version a few days later. 1 plugin a few months later and the last one no update at all. All 3 need an update to work with the new UE version. Should the 3 developers be treated equally?
are you talking about new features or just supporting the latest engine version? those are two very different things.
I think both should be given some kind of weight.
The engine version support seems to already be implemented, I think trying to force sellers to adopt a live service business model is a dangerous idea as not every product needs to be live service and live service prevents new products from arising since old ones get all the attention.
I find your point of view extremely strange. When I imagine that the software I use every day, such as a browser, no longer receives updates. Horrible. Could it be that you are a seller yourself and fit into the “sell and forget” category? The discussion is then of course pointless. We both have a completely different point of view and neither of us can change that. I hope Epic thinks about my suggestion. It would be good for the quality of fab.
Yes, also this
Would be very happy to see launcher integration return
Plugins that are well maintained should always get more attention. Regular updates could increase weight, whereas too frequent updates have no effect, to prevent abusing the score. But I see that it is quite difficult to balance.
Yeah I release finished products, I don’t hide that fact and I’m not ashamed of it. Again not every product needs to be live service, I use many plugins in my own games and none of them need constant updates other than supporting the latest engine version. An example is a gamepad cursor plugin I use, there is nothing really more that needs to be added to it and punishing the seller because his product is feature complete already is dumb.
I agree with your point of view, I would even add that pushing for a “live service” type of product just to get visibility is a very bad idea.
If you ask developers to start pushing many updates just to be on top of search or rankings, it will be a mess with many plugins barely working, not tested properly and overall of poor quality being pushed on top just because they do many updates. Maybe it could have worked on UEM with the much more careful curation, but not on FAB
Having some sort of ranking for plugins that support the latest engine version is not a bad idea though, but it already seems mostly implemented. But even that is not really relevant if a plugin already support the previous latest version. Many people wait months before eventually upgrading.
Please dear Fab team stop the automated Ai support. It is giving answers to questions no one asked. It answers anything but my question.
This update is much needed, and with so much expected to go live in February, specially the wishlists, it feels like this update could be the one to finally get things back on track. Please, Epic, I’m genuinely worried, don’t let this update disappoint. We really need it to work well.
Hi,
Can you fix this? Since the FAB launch, I’ve still been unable to send the product. The product is not Live; it is still in Draft.
I didn’t really care about these few products—I thought it would be fixed quickly. But now I’m wondering whether I should create a new listing instead.
The fab update is super dissapointing and has slowed my development, I have a bunch of unreal addons I want to buy when they’re on sale, but 1) there don’t seem to be sales anymore, and 2) launching without a wishlist was really dumb. No-one cares about advanced search queries, could you please get the basic functionality that we had before to be at least working first?
And please, add (recover) the option to sort sale results by discount amount, and recover something like ArchViz category.
You were able to develop a whole game engine, even if you lost a lot of your skills, I’m sure you will be still able to make a basic website before year 2030. Yes you can!
