I came to the forums to look for this thread. And I am happy that is exist because I am angry. I am not sure who came up with the design or decision to create this FAB thing, but its simply not the UE Marketplace. I am an older UE developer (started with UEdit for the original Unreal) and grew up with Epic. Since the UE Marketplace exists, I am being used to my daily routine:
- check for new free assets
- check free of the month
- check 50% off sales
- check what’s new in general, even buying high-priced assets if worth it
- having clear routines when I look for special topics like water.
Now, I can see a ton of things that simply would not pass the quality assurance in the past. AI-generated content with “no AI used” tagged. Free models that even put some free 3D model pages from the early 2000s to shame. The content is all over the place, and even simple searches like “water” now pull up 1000 assets where literally 800 have nothing to do with water at all.
EPIC, WAKE UP.
In all honesty, it’s fine that people learn 3D today like I did 26 years ago - but nobody would want to see my first 3D models on a serious platform, cluttering. Same goes for the 1000th AI generated Icon-Pack. Yes, even if they are curated - it’s not fine to say that it’s not AI generated - it still is. And I am saying this as a person with ComfyUI pipeline and 200GB of local Stable Diffusion models on my drive.
Bring back the old Marketplace, this FAB here is a disgrace and a slap into people who come here for serious business.