The discussion is a bit pointless at point.
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Features that the community wants are of great importance to us, and we welcome any requests to be posted up one level on our Feedback for Epic forum…
We do not have a say in what’s going to be in the engine, [MENTION=14973][/MENTION] . Because most of our bug reports/ requests from last year are still backlogged, unless it’s been something that perfectly aligns with Epic’s internal needs. We were all trying to get a little more attention to backlogged items, but everything got wiped from existence. Same as when people were asking for Marketplace improvements, they got a 24 hour delay on the sales report instead, and staff left the Discord channel, cutting off the little remaining communication.
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If you release a game, we ask for 5% of the gross revenue from the project. Some people say ‘why does Epic want a cut of my game?’ and it’s because we’re providing you with engine and we’ve aligned our interest with yours. -, Epic Games
That simply isn’t true. I have many threads in the feedback section, most features being what comes with other engines right out of the box because they’re absolutely critical to majority of developers, but there is no instance where we asked for a similar tool and it was added.
Lighting Units - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums Frostbite/Cryengine have it.
Spline Decals? - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums Frostbite/Cryengine have it.
Ambient Cubemap - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums Frostbite/Cryengine have it.
Terrain painting with pen pressure? - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums Frostbite has it.
Slope based landscape painting - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums Cryengine has it.
Landscape performance issue - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums Frostbite/Cryengine have virtual texturing.
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?112646-Give-sellers-more-control Cryneigne/Unity3D marketplaces value sellers much more.
What do I have to do to get a proper reply from? - Marketplace - Epic Developer Community Forums …
Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-35097) Untouched bug for 8 months with 40 votes.
questions/591690/sss-is-affected-by-skylight-shouldnt-be.html was marked as solved 3 times in a row last night, while the problem is there and very obvious.
Unreal Engine Issues and Bug Tracker (UE-43093) Probably soon to be backlogged bug report.
Global Illumination alternatives - Feedback & Requests - Epic Developer Community Forums There are many threads regarding RT-GI. Community wants it. Frostbite has Enlighten/Unity has something/Cryengine has SVOGI, Epic removed SVOGI.
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All ignored because wasn’t needed in Epic’s closed arena shooter, which is the only type of game Epic has focused on for years since Unreal Tournament came out.
That’s examples I pulled off from my side only. Absence of those features have added tremendous amount of labor to our team.
How much hope one should have in order to stay motivated and continue giving feedback/make requests.
Maybe ask the CEO to read through such threads sometimes before talking about community.