I really hope that Fab replacement for both external and integrated Bridge will finally work correctly. Both integrated and external bride apps are atrociously slow to the point of being straight up unusable sometimes. Previously, it could be waved away be saying “but it’s free”.
Now that the content will no longer be free starting 2025, there will be no more excuses to have such insanely low quality standards for the performance of the asset distribution platform. It would be embarrassing to ask people for money in a store app that is not capable for rasterizing a few dozen of 2D UI elements on CPUs with dozens of threads and GPUs with thousands of cores at framerate numbers higher than what you can count on fingers of one hand.
If the content is commercial, the platform’s technical execution should be up to the commercial standards.
On the one hand, I expect this, on the other hand, given that even after all the years, Epic still hasn’t managed to get their stuff together in terms of the launcher UX and performance, I am very skeptical.
Ultimately, I will vote with my wallet. I will be more than happy to support future content creation by paying money for the existing one. But I won’t buy anything if I, as a customer, get disrespected by the developers of the distribution platform and its integration into the engine not putting at least bare minimum expected effort into its UX and performance (which is part of the UX on its own).