One of the things I dont get about this is:
- We had free access to the megascans for years now
- now we dont anymore after day X
This clearly is not about the 99 cents we might spend on a texture, or the 25 bucks for a set of trees, but something bigger.
So, why cant the “we only make games people” that have an account that is older than the announcement just keep their (future) free access to the current megascans, with new ones being paid? (I mean, they clearly dont care if people now go and rip the whole bridge 
(not doing that, not encouraging it… but they must have known that many will do this.))
I, for example, never really bothered also downloading the ones “I might need in the future” because I expected them “to be there”… and now epic puts me in a weird spot where I kinda have to either download them now, or pay for something I got for free for years.
Its not like I went and downloaded hundreds of assets a month, its maybe 20 meshes since we got them for free.
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Again, its not about the “paying for stuff”… I have bought stuff in the marketplace, its about the “mess” this creates, and the “weird spot” this puts me in.
If you need to cover the cost of us downloading those things, then make us pay a one time fee or so, idk? (or give us a reasonable monthly fee to pay, like the MMOs do etc… Something like “Fab Indie+” subscription or so.)
I am all for “covering the costs” and stuff, but why has it to be that messy?