Hey there -
This is encouraging, but there’s nothing in the announcement about how this will be tracked. It says Megascans acquired for free by UE accounts “Can be downloaded anew.” Does this mean there will be no migration of data around who owns which assets, and each user would be responsible for re-checking every single asset they have from the new Fab store?
If that’s the case, this will totally screw existing developments that included a lot of Quixel assets and would generate an enormous make-work project for UE devs. It’s basically a clawing-back of things you already gave away for free, obligating users to then re-acquire each one.
The announcement specifically says that paid users (i.e. non-UE users who bought with credits) will have their owned content migrated but that Free users will not.
(That sounds like an absolute mess if that is the case and definitely not an acceptable way to do this - and also an unnecessary mess since Quixel already has user history for acquisitions and downloads of assets in the user activity page).
I have to imagine this was an enormous oversight (intentional or unintentional?) because leaving out “what happens to things you’ve already used under our past agreement” from the announcement is insane.