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The problem is that people just don’t rate the assets they purchase, ofc there are exceptions, but several cases have sold thousand units and like a dozen ratings only, which is sad and breaks the purpose of such system. When the asset is bad, most people currently go there to place a 1 or 2 stars, but these are few cases. One important item I think would be nice to have is the amount of sales for that assets or at least something telling the numeric range of sales: 0, 10-50, 50-100, 100-250, 250-500, so based on the current rating we could understand which is the feeling people purchasing that asset is having about it.
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Perhaps the reason people aren’t rating purchases is that there is currently no use. It doesn’t matter if it’s rated or not because there is no functionality to search for high ratings. A popular asset doesn’t always mean that it’s a quality asset, but generally, yes I agree that would be a good indicator. Having the option to sort by both average rating and by popularity seems like a decent solution here.
Perhaps adding more of a review system would benefit the marketplace, allowing others to mark the review as helpful (or some sort of voting system). You can comment on assets in the marketplace right now, but anyone can comment on it (even those that haven’t purchased the product). Trusted curators leaving reviews is also a viable option. It all depends on the amount of work Epic is willing to put into it.