Marketplace needs a way to preview/demo content

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@Achilleon;577324

Blueprint assets are kind of useless when compiled. What you need is not what a blueprint did, but how actually it did and how you can edit it to suit your needs so you have to actually see the code first.

I can create a really realistic weapon and I can hide many bugs that might occur while editing its properties, because the code is not editable. Maybe I am a bad programmer so I sugarcoated many stuff in my compiled version of gun, how would you know?

As I said before, models can always be ripped rather easily. I am not sure why people thinks blueprints can’t. I will not fight on that part because I agree that it would be harder to rip the code and one can easily say “**** it” and pay for it. But a compiled demo would still not show all the potentials, good parts and bad parts of a blueprint asset.

Asset Demo sounds useful, and even great, but it is not solving the “things that you realise after buying the asset” problem completely. That’s just my 0.5 cents.

Well of course it doesn’t show everything - but at least buyers would get an idea how it works when compiled. And it’s not hard to set up a demo to show off how versatile your system is. Bugs and such things -will- allow you to get a refund, so that is covered. But if you set up a short demo showing off the sorts of results you can get using the blueprint system, then that’s definitely very useful to customers IMO. Coupling that, with screenshots/videos, customer should be able to get a reliable view of how a system works far beyond what is currently available - thus allowing them to make a more informed decision. Naturally, the only way to know for absolutely sure that an asset is perfect for you is to purchase it - but that doesn’t mean we can’t remove a lot of guesswork.