I support text reviews (after purchase), already said that.
Q&A was a loophole for lot’s of Devs to do exactly that. How do they have time? Cause they’re bad at what they do, want everything cheap and are jealous of competitors gettings their stuff approved.
Tons of FAKE ACCOUNTS abusing the Q&A system because they didn’t have to purchase the product (unlike text-reviews), so that gave them the opportunity to HARASS other’s product publicly. When got reported, they had nothing to lose for any BANS cause they used fakes or they would simply erase the comment (but damage was done). This was a common practice among a large group of Devs to force prices down on Seller’s products. Epic knew this… and it is why you get a star ratings on FAB. You add the Discord cheat and you got what you deserved. So stop crying and move on.
This still make no sense, even bad developer can’t wait week for the price of an addon to be possibly 10$ lower and there is a very limited satisfaction and effect to post negative question.
Technically, it’s pretty straightforward to block Q&A for new accounts with no purchases or to automatically clean up Q&A from accounts that didn’t buy the addon after a week. I’ve managed several big forums before, and there are tons of automated ways to clean up bots, spam, or negative behavior without affecting real users. It’s even easier when purchases are involved.
Reviews, generally good but was often sort of not valid, i.e. someone points out an issue and rates 1 star, a week later the developer updates the package with a fix, still the review reflects the older version. Or, someone gives 1 star due to a technical issue un-related to the project, or using wrong version, or not following instructions. Perhaps the solution is to only allow written reviews without a star rating. This way people can review and the reader can make his own judgement.
And I am missing a feature which displays the sales.
Little Correction, Review are Indeed Useful while Ratings are not that much.
As a Buyer 1 Star Product make me more curious then one 5 Star Product, then I read the Review and most of the times it is because of mistake/Misunderstanding from Buyer side, But the more useful thing to me is How Seller respond to Criticism, From that I can Judge how helpful he would be in Situation where support is needed.
I would second this. Having devs spend weeks on some sort of bar/tiered based system as a “new improved review system” is counterproductive / a waste of time and resources.
The thing everyone needs and is asking for is (1) very low effort and (2) a much better solution than the alternative being proposed.
Again, zero evidence whatsoever for this insane conspiracy theory that game devs are somehow out to get you. More likely that you are getting trolled by children and falling for it hard.
There is no “secret cabal of devs” at their evil hideout colluding to reduce the price of a static mesh from $20 to $14.99.
Plus, there’s plenty of more useful and expensive stuff to harass an random dev over, lmao. But even then, if people are actually doing that, we’re probably screwed in the long run
This is evidence of people trolling you. Not evidence of a coordinated effort of game devs in ski masks acting like juveniles trying to save $4 on a static mesh.
As a buyer, this will prevent me from purchasing anything unless it is from a reliable seller I am comfortable with. Like others if there was a low star product, but was remotely interested, I would check the comments as most usually are end user error/misunderstanding. And even High rated to see if the seller is active and the product isn’t abandoned. This whole fab thing is just not good. At the very least make API’s available so some skilled programmer can make a useful comment system (site to be linked) attached to whether or not someone purchased the product commenting on. Fab just seems like “they” put more emphasis on including other systems and “other” licensing at the cost of unreal customers/sellers.
Funny you keep flip-flopping between Epic never doing anything and them being removed. Nobody that cared about their money was affected by the Discord verification nonsense. They were reading what was available. Including your aggressiveness instead of reporting and/or moving on with life. Instead you insist on bringing it here to air your dirty laundry.
I’m not going to blame sellers for making their own solutions to see that someone owns their product for support when Epic wouldn’t step in.
I agree. I never purchase anything on the store without reading reviews. I also used the comments in reviews and questions to find the answers to some issues. Also, I won’t be buying anything from sellers who come here bullying others because they have different opinions. Seeing how some act here makes me wonder if the problems they claim to be having with buyers are actually of their own doing.
The ones who will actually suffer the most are the sellers. I won’t buy without text reviews and Q&A’s that were present before and the continued allowance of old-style comments without letting morons abuse the system and ruin it for others. This is easily done. I’m guessing it has something to do with the combination of markets, but I don’t care why. Fix it, Epic/Fab.
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