Nonsense? Wow what a mature response!
And I don’t want to believe you can be this selfish even in real life.
Instead of responding/touching on all the concerns I laid out that affect sellers, you’ve done nothing but talk about your problems, and your fees as a buyer, and completely ignored the very FACT that the seller too is trying to make money and feed their family and make their own ends meet with their Plugins/Assets.
This is the problem here, you’re just thinking of yourself and not who you run over to get your way.
“So by your logic every seller of any game on Epic Games Store, Steam , GOG or any other online shop should start asking money to customers to deliver updates ?”
Let’s see;
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Gamers who buy your game don’t get the full source code to your game
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Gamers DO NOT expect endless lifetime updates to your game. they merely ask the game to be stable and ask you fix bugs if any. You don’t see GTA 1 Gamers demanding Rockstar to give them GTA 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6 and beyond infinity… cause they paid for GTA 1.
Neither do you see them demand Rockstar keeps updating GTA 1 forever and forever.
Are you going to expect to get Assassins Creed 4 for free cause you paid for 3? -
Gamers DO NOT package and resell your product/game for their own profit or gain. They merely play the game, not package it with other things to make money.
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Well Game Developers Actually DO have recurring revenue models implemented in their games that allows them to keep that game updated. Do you seriously think Cod Mobile would still be constantly updated without its Monthly Passes/ skin purchases? Fortnite? Do you seriously believe game developers who have apps in the app store would still update their game if the Ads shown didn’t create recurring income for them?
have you thought about why GTA 5 has been running for this long/with the updates this long? You don’t think it’s cause the online creates recurring revenue for rockstar from the people who demand updates?
TBH, I don’t even know why you even tried to make this comparison, I could go on and on… wow…
Plugin And Asset developers are not your slaves that you can just pay $20 and say you work for me now… for a lifetime… i own you. I sold you a plugin and at the time you bought it , it said it would work for Unreal Engine 4.26. And it works for Unreal Engine 4.26. I don’t owe you updates for 4.27, 5.0 , 6.0, 7.0,… 25.0… ? As a seller we are doing it as a courtesy , not because you’ll have a valid claim for a refund if we don’t. We said it will work for 4.26 projects, it works for 4.26 projects… you read the description. nowhere does the epic marketplace license guarantee you “this seller will update this with each engine version for LIFE” when you purchase.
please be serious, and stop thinking about yourself.
OR here’s an idea, go build those plugins yourself with that $20. see how that turns out for you