It is impossible to search FAB “Recent Releases” because there are sellers who spam dozens of small material/prop assets every day.
New FAB users will just leave FAB seeing this clutter. The search experience is terrible.
Sellers will quit FAB because their hard crafted quality assets are never seen among this clutter.
In UE marketplace there were rules for a minimal asset content size of 5 props / 5 materials.
Sellers could rely on having their new assets on top of ‘Recent Releases’ for at least some time.
Now, new released assets are being flushed away to the bottom because some “wise” sellers abuse the system by publishing many small assets that take away the whole page.
What would happen if everyone did this?
Possible solutions:
Prohibit sale of small assets containing only a few props or materials
Allow only 1 upload per day for small assets.
Add filter button to hide small assets
Add a filter to block all assets from a seller
Additionally, we need these options to:
Hide owned assets
Hide all assets from specific sellers
Hide all assets that support only some specific formats
Show only 70% discounted assets
See a price/discount tracker under every asset
Sort alphabetical by seller’s name
Sort by number of ratings
See discount amount on asset page without the need to click on license selector
See the asset publication date, not the “migration-to-FAB” date
Leave written questions and reviews
Move “Characters” out of “3D” to a separate category where assets are forced to be in subcategories. Not like now, where “Characters” are already a subcategory of “3D” with 90% of characters uncategorized further.
I agree that doesn’t work as well as it could with spammed products.
One other solution which I think could work well is to have a search for latest, by author - so if you do a “Newest” search, you would only see one icon per author - clicking on that would reveal their latest releases along with their current ones.
Bit of extra dev work to display sub-level collections - but it would clean up the newest release page so much.
Scammers will find work arounds to these things. If you limit the daily upload amount, they will just have 100 accounts. These things will hurt real creators more.
There has to be more human moderation and higher requirements to become a seller. Any automated AI moderation will be just abused.
Yeah, it does make discovery difficult. One potential solution that is easy to implement is make a quick filter to exclude 3d objects or only show unreal or unity assets when going to the new releases window and store it as a cookie or something so it’s saved as a setting every time.
I think they need to make a filter for 3d assets or to exclude them for sure, a good chunk of users only want unreal or unity packs to be shown.
The real and easy solution to this problem is to hide AI generated assets by default, or to move them into their own “AI” category, which can be hidden as an option.
Previously, UnrealMarketPlace had a rule that there couldn’t be less than 10 units of goods in a set. Now you can have 1 effect, 1 material, 1 props.
How much garbage will there be if everyone starts posting 1? Many good sets of materials and effects and props have from 20 to 1000 different units.
I think we need to return to the rules that were there before and let the “garbage-makers” collect theirs in packages.
I don’t know, I have bought some singular assets that were pretty good. They should be able to do some sort of algorithmic change that allows you to filter them out but removing them all together hurts customers who buy them.
Perhaps a upload limit per day or week would work better and account verification for sellers to prevent duplicate alt accounts.
