Fab is currently overwhelmed with low effort AI generated garbage. Assets that reek of ChatGPT and Midjourney slop rather than actual craftsmanship. Browsing the store has become a chore instead of a resource.
The core problems ive seen:
No filtering. I can’t exclude AI generated content from search results.
No blocking. I can’t block creators flooding the store with mass produced junk.
No hiding. Once I see garbage, I keep seeing it. There’s no way to curate my own browsing experience.
No collections or lists. Unity’s Asset Store has had this for years. Fab still doesn’t.
Basic discovery is broken. I can’t even find simple, clean low poly assets anymore. They’re buried under algorithmic noise.!
This isn’t a minor annoyance.. Its a fundamental failure of a marketplace’s core function: helping people find things. A store that can’t be searched or curated isn’t a store, it’s a landfill with a search bar.
Until Fab gets real moderation filtering tools (AI content tagging and exclusion, creator blocking, saved lists and collections) it’s actively working against the people trying to use Unreal Engine to make things. I’m not alone in this either. Check any recent Fab related thread and you’ll see the same complaints on repeat.
Fix the store. Until then, I’m building elsewhere.
I suspect that it’s not going to get any better. Epic has chosen sides on day 1 when they allowed hundreds of thousands of slop scammers to drown out the store with their garbage. It doesn’t matter how frequently we complain about this. They will never improve their unoptimized and terrible excuse of a slop plugin.
Epic says that everything is AI now and screw every artist and developer who needs resources to build their project. Apparently it’s the developers fault for not embracing AI and giving up on their development, because nothing we can ever make will ever live up to the slop fest of their perfect AI creations that have been trained on our stolen work!
Enough is enough. Epic has gotten it’s point across. They do not value the developers who have made their product as successful and as popular as it is. Either we take a stand and make our own store that’s focused on supporting developers or we continue to use the pathetic excuse that Fab is.
At this point with the future removal of blueprints to be replaced with a slop generator, it’s almost time to find a new game engine that values the artists and developers who want to use it.
I think this is normal.Epic has never managed AIGC from day one, and is even planning to integrate AIGC in a new version.I can’t see a future with Unreal Engine.