Two things I feel the marketplace needs, and cannot fathom how it has gone so long without them:
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Packages need to show the “last updated date” on the package market page (a list of update dates for the package is highly preferred to). will help determine how actively the developer updates the package, as well as let us know at a glance whether it is likely to have been updated since certain aspects of work were done to the engine and may support them or not.
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And is the BIG one… when submitting an update to a marketplace package, the system NEEDS to enforce a mandatory change notes list! There is little more frustrating, than working on a project that uses something from the marketplace, having the launcher notify us the package has been updated, and going to the asset page and there being zero mention of what has changed! It is very rare that anything from the market will get used (at least by myself) without heavy modification to fit the project it is being used in. We need to know “what” changed, so we can decide if its worth all of the work to re-integrate the updated package into our projects (since ue4 doesn’t have any type of proper package update system that will notify you what files were changed from the imported version if nothing else). Change notes should be mandatory for anything being updated as most developers do not list them voluntarily in the descriptions themselves (huge shout out and kudos to those of you that do add them! We <3 you! :D)