Sharp decline in Official Responses from Epic throughout the community.

[spacegojira]

@BrUnO_XaVIeR

No; but indie devs and small studios are completely dependent on community. If UE4 community shrinks while Lumberyard’s or Unity’s increase, for indies using UE4 that becomes a major problem overtime.

Epic is going be just fine, I’m much more worried about the community around Unreal Engine and new comers giving up because they receive 0% backup.

Agreed. The longer I am part of the UE4 community, the more I am annoyed by the lack of community support by Epic, not to mention the marketplace is a disaster where most assets shouldn’t ever have gotten through their “quality control”.

@BrUnO_XaVIeR

This is very serious; I’ve seen all this happen before ( Torque engine’s community, CryEngine’s, Unity’s)…
Users began to give up those communities and flow away to something else.

4 years ago Unity pretty much had an exodus of users due to very familiar reasons discussed here.

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Meanwhile, Epic took opposite path… Communication is lacking, documentation is a big mess, training is community driven, user feedback is ignored, bug reports are ignored for months, roadmap is gone, engine improvement is entirely guided by Epic’s own internal game projects only.

So, where do think all of this is going?
I’ve been told by projects leads to evaluate and learn other engines already, such as Lumberyard, “-just in case”.

This. I have the feeling that Epic is catering more and more to the big businesses & titles that make them a lot of money, and more and more ignore the indie devs and the “free” community. Which is crazy, because without the community, there wouldn’t be any way for newcomers to learn how to use the Engine at all. Not to mention the Engine wouldn’t even be where it is right now.

@BrUnO_XaVIeR

So, where do think all of this is going?
I’ve been told by projects leads to evaluate and learn other engines already, such as Lumberyard, “-just in case”.

I will finish my current project in UE4, and then move on to Lumberyard or Unity, to never come back. It’s just too much a waste of time and money trying to find good answers to engine / blueprint problems, “testing” broken marketplace assets or after 6 versions (I started around 4.12) to be still hoping Epic will finally decide to give dynamic lighting / open worlds some love.