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I’ve been asking for that for a while now. =P said he made them already, just hasn’t decided whether they will add them or not.
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I like the idea! I’ll talk to about .
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Just finished reading through most of thread (about time I did!). Very insightful stuff.
Personally, I can’t complain with the process so far. Everyone has been super supportive. The only thing is, like some have mentioned, once a project is on the Trello Board, it feels a bit like a guessing game as to the length of time remaining before it either breaks or makes it to the Market. For example, my match-3 project got moved to the coming soon section, and from there I’ve been feeling kind of in a “limbo”. I’ve announced move to the community, but beyond that I feel a little limited. Having a launch date would be nice to build up towards. In the meantime I’ve been working on other projects, and once the Match-3 project gets moved to next release I guess then will be the time to really put the pedal down and get the hype going. Being my first submitted project, it’s a learning experience (I’m definitely going to better chose my images and description next time).
I also think that the Trello board is iffy, I personally didn’t know about it until I submitted my first project, not that I really looked for it, but I’m assuming that the majority of the community is also unaware or simply not interested in that process. That being said, would it really change much if the entire community was to vote? There would be more votes, yes, but would it really change the outcome, maybe not. I think that the community is a healthy one, and that even in a small percentage, it can reflect the majority’s opinion.
In short, great work from the Market’s staff, thank you for the information, and I am looking forward to creating more content for Unreal Engine 4’s Blueprint system.
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Thank you for your honest feedback, and for your submission!
The Trello system is something we’ve been working on turning into something more useful over time, but I think there’s a lot more we could be doing to communicate with content creators what’s happening and what the status is. Even though traffic to Trello over time has increased a lot, it still seems like something that not everyone is yet aware of, and it may not be doing the same job now that it did when we started.
So here’s an open question to the community – do you guys think Trello is still worth using?
We envisioned it as a way for the community to promote their content, gauge public interest, and use it as a way to advertise leading up to a release. But it’s possible that the Trello board isn’t doing the same job it did when we launched. I’d like to hear from everyone on .
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As a marketplace contributor I have to say that I am disappointed with the length of time it takes for us to receive sales reports. It has consistently been 5 weeks after the close of a month to receive sales statistics. For example, any sales I made on March 1st I am not notified of until May 7th. That is over 2 months from the time of sale. As it has been stated by EPIC staff that they hope artists can make a decent living with the marketplace, but how is a seller supposed to do any kind of financial planning with such a long lull between information? As an accountant it makes my stomach sick.
So I just received my invoice for march, but the entire April sales period has completed but I will not know what my payout will be until June 7th. is unacceptable and needs to be the #1 priority of. There is nothing more important than . I was sitting here doing math of sales as a percentage of views from direct links to blindly pulling numbers out of nowhere to try and estimate what my sales proceeds will be for April come the first week of June. Epic already knows right now how many sales I made in April, but I will not be informed until the first week of June. It is seriously unacceptable.
How I am supposed to plan for the future: sales, price changes, new content, updates to old content? The creators are blind, EPIC has the cure, but we are not being given the treatment. At the very most we want detailed live tracking of sales and at the very least we want sales statistics at the month end. is more about the communication of information than it is about payment dates. I am not even that upset with waiting 45 days after close for payment, but the information of sales needs to be delivered as soon as it is available. I’m not , I’m just feeling very under-supported as a contractor that is bringing in revenue for the company.
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I understand your frustration. is our (and my) top priority internally. We are currently developing a seller portal that will not only make it easier to submit and update content (including price, screenshots, description, etc), but also streamline sales reports and payment. In the meantime, I’m currently working on finding out how I can get sales data to sellers faster than we currently do, as well as giving the community a clearer idea of what’s popular and where the best opportunities are for succeeding on the Marketplace based on data. I have a few ideas I’ve gotten early approval on, and I’ll be rolling those out publicly in the coming days and weeks. Stay tuned. 
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or mentioned a couple weeks ago in thread (or another) that they are working on a seller portal. So we should be able to view our sales in real time relatively soon. As a vendor myself, I can understand the frustration with getting it a month after. I also want to add that having a consistent date is also important, for reliability. That being said, is Epic’s first experience with running a marketplace like , so everyone is learning as they go. When you consider that, I think the team has done a tremendous job so far. They’re doing the best they can, and are definitely improving in areas that were criticized early on. Good things grow in time. We’ve seen submission wait times significantly reduced, and the whole review process streamlined for efficiency.
As you mentioned, Epic has said they want to grow the marketplace into a place where content developers can make a decent living. Looking at how much the marketplace process has improved since it was launched, I have faith in their intent to help deliver on that within the parameters that they are in control of. =)
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Thanks, man. I (and we) sincerely appreciate that.