Marketplace can’t improve much while ‘Epic Games’, the whole corporation specially the bosses over there, recognizes the importance of Marketplace for the maintenance of a healthy game developer community around Unreal Engine (now that UE4 went public).
Sweeney said, as a somewhat of excuse for lack of investment on the Marketplace, that “the Marketplace can barely break even”… But that was around 2014 or something, Marketplace has grown and will keep on growing; but we still see NO investment towards Marketplace improvement as a platform.
There’s always startups around public game engines where the supply of Marketplace quality content is the key factor for whether is their engine of choice or not. (call 'em asset flippers if you like, but that is another topic)
is just a piece of fact on how important Marketplace is.
I’m sure the income influx is now significant (because there are developer startups out there and they are buying assets all the time) thus Epic could improve the overall experience; but no, is still the same mini-group of people doing a LOT of manual work (sorry for you guys).
It’s in a point where I’d like to request to loan 1 million bucks to Marketplace department out of those 5 million dev grant (lol) and help side of the engine echosystem to improve a bit.