Does anyone know what happened to the marketplace that gave away some paid assets for free each month and now with the merger of the marketplace and SketchFab called Fab, that “free for the month” no longer appears?
What about “Featured Free Content”. Maybe that will cycle through assets / packs / plugins in place of the “Free for the month”?
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Previously, we had paid projects that were offered for free for a month. Now, there is simply a free zone accessible to all users, which, if I recall correctly, already existed before.
In other words, there used to be free elements and paid elements that were given away temporarily. Now, there is only the free zone that has always existed.
It might be a transitioning phase. They still have their hands full with fixing peoples product ownership from the marketplace to fab. Once they iron that out they might port over the free of the month.
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On the homepage, the description of the ‘FEATURED CONTENT - Free Content’ section says “Grab the latest October free content while you can”
These assets that 3dRaven linked are the same ‘Free for the Month’ that were on the UE Marketplace for October.
I don’t think there has ever been free elements that were only temporary. (Just Paid assets that were free for X month)
But what I think is missing is the ‘Permanently Free Collection’ - Basically that was assets that Epic paid the creators to make permanently free (as opposed to paying the creators to make their assets free for only 1 month)
This search query is the closest thing I can come up with that matches the previous ‘Permanently Free Collection’ tab:
https://www.fab.com/channels/unreal-engine?ui_filter_price=1&is_free=1&sort_by=createdAt
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As @Astrotronic mentioned, yes this “Featured Free Content” page, or since it has changed recently to “Free This Month” page, is the equivalent to the Unreal Marketplace’s former monthly free assets. This is only the first month, but we should see a rotation this coming Tuesday 11/5/24, assuming they keep the same schedule.
