Package prices are too high.

[SE_JonF]

@MaZi1;324343

Well, I know one week would be enough! I see quality like on the market place produced within a week regularly. My major focus is not on modeling, but I know enough modelers that work under pressure at AAAs, and if those guys keep hitting it for a week say every evening 2-3 hours, they produce at least the quality that is on the UE market place. At least! They have been this field for years. Most of them have their own private licenses at home at are in full juice if it comes to workflow and techniques.

For example SF_JonF Assets, which are nice by the way:
The geometry is not complex, neither are the materials. Both is very nicely done though and just satisfies modular asset needs.
It took him probably more than a week. But I am 100% percent sure, the professional modelers with experience could pull it off in one week. Even though the comparison lacks a bit, because they do it day in day out under pressure, and have been doing so for years. One of those guys at home on his private licenses…he would have a market place asset ready in no time.

All I want to say is, hurry up Epic. Right now the market place is a wasteland compared to the Unity Asset Store. Submission takes ages, and that would be fine if quality reflects that, but it does not.
High prices also does not help to make the market place more lively. You usually pay in the $100 range for assets on other websites, but there you get the files, the source file usually. UE assets are to specific to UE4 to ask for normal 3D model prices.
But yes, time will tell…maybe I misjudge it.

I am offended that you suggest my work should take a week to produce, else it is unprofessional. It takes considerable time to plan for modular assets, especially for such a grand scale series that I have conceived for the marketplace. Backwards compatibility adds further strain on the design, as you have to ensure that each pack fits perfectly with one another. And this is just coming up with the ideas, the general guidelines or blueprints so to speak. Creating the concepts for the design takes even more time, as you have to strike a balance between functionality and visuals and make sure that you have established a unique identity that can remain consistent upon each release. Bringing the concepts to life adds on to that, especially when you have to ensure the aforementioned backwards compatibility and a level of consistency between assets. Doing this work for assets that are designed to be highly modular so as to benefit the consumer while also being highly detailed is a tremendous amount of work, and I can assure you it doesn’t take a week to do it. It took me a little over a months work for the first pack, about 2 weeks for the free update, and nearly two months for the current pack that is about to be released this month. High quality assets take time, not only to plan but to execute. I may not be at the level of most industry workers, but I am in no way a beginner. I have been working with the unreal engine for years, and have been creating architecture for just as long. My development time doesn’t last a second longer than it has to, I work hard to get these assets out in a timely manner while ensuring quality does not suffer. I think it’s easy for some people in here to be judgmental of a process they know little to nothing about. If it were so easy and quick to put out high quality assets, I and many others would be pumping them out much quicker. I have to say I’m a bit disappointed to see these egregious remarks from some of the members here. You yourself claim you are not a modeler, so I feel you should be the last to cast unsubstantiated judgement on those who are. This sort of behavior is enough to discourage content creators from selling anything here at all, as we are vilified for trying to do right by the consumer as best as we can.