So here are my suggestions on how to greatly improve the marketplace.
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A better organization of assets into deeper categories + search by tag.
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A real review system, like Steam has it, with positive and negative ratings.
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A more indepth rating system, that includes multiple points like “Well structured” - “Quality of code / blueprints” - “Well documented” - “Easy to understand” - “Simple to migrate into another project” etc.
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Hide assets by default that aren’t updated for a longer time.
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The marketplace staff needs to re-test assets once in a while, to check if the quality remains.
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And create a guideline on how people should create assets, like props or blueprints, to show them an optimal folder structure, documentation and to make sure assets are actually usable for other projects.
I think would help a lot. What a lot of marketplace creators seem to forget is that it’s mainly newcomers who are buying there, especially the blueprints. And therefore they just don’t know what the devs do.
Creators should never expect the buyers to simply understand everything they do.