Here’s some insight from a previously frequent customer at the marketplace. I haven’t been to the Fab store since last fall/winter because I could tell then that it was a real crap job without vision or quality commitment. Clearly, they think they can treat professional customers the same way the industry treats players. I stopped by today for the first time to see if they have seen the error of their decision and returned to the imperfect but much better marketplace. I had heard that they hadn’t and don’t intend to. It’s become clear that was true. Good luck with that.
We will not be purchasing any further assets from Epic because all they’ve managed to do in the last year is prove how untrustworthy and unreliable their asset management really is. I can’t count on a company that can’t get the most basic things about business or customer service right. It’s not rocket science. It’s actually pretty easy to figure out, but they don’t seem up to the task. As a result, I have to question all of management’s competence.
We will finish our current project. Any planned projects that previously depended upon the use of UE will now be reassessed. Continuing on that road will highly depend on whether or not we will need additional assets from Unreal’s marketplace. We won’t even accept free assets from Fab since we want them to get the message that their decision was unwanted and continues to remain unwelcome.
I suppose they figure that the AI will be good enough within a couple of years that they won’t need all of you anymore. Maybe you should be working together on a solution since they’ve made their feelings about everyone but themselves crystal clear.