I understand that Fab and Quixel are two completely separate marketplaces, and that the assets that I “purchased” via my free access as an Unreal Engine developer probably won’t migrate over to Fab, and that I’ll have to “purchase” them again on Fab if I want access to them via Fab.
My question is about Bridge’s long-term access to the Megascans library once Fab is launched. It has been stated that we’ll be able to access our “purchased” assets through Bridge or Quixel’s website “for the foreseeable future”. But that sounds like access via Bridge can/will end at some point. It sounds like “purchases” through Bridge won’t be possible once Fab launches, and at that point Bridge will just be used to access any assets that we’ve already “purchased”…any future purchases will be done through Fab.
For clarity, I’m not asking whether we’ll be able to continue to “purchase” Megascans assets through Bridge after Fab launches; it seems pretty clear that Epic wants everyone to use Fab at that point (totally understandable). I am only concerned about the long-term accessibility of the assets that I’ve “purchased” through Bridge via my free UE developer access.
I would like to thank Epic for giving me access to such incredibly high-quality assets for such a long period of time. I know that a lot of people are sad that we’re losing free access to the Megascans library, but I never felt entitled to this access. So, thank you Epic, your generosity was not lost on me. However, I won’t lie to you, I am currently going into Bridge and “purchasing” as many assets as possible before Fab’s launch (I want to grab them all, to be completely honest, but I refuse to use one of the scripts that is floating around the Internet. That seems like it would be violating the TOS). When we received free access to the entire Megascans library, it totally changed the way that I thought of designing a game and opened up possibilities that I couldn’t achieve on my own. All of my plans include access to these high-quality assets, so now I really have to grab as much as I can get. I will also go onto Fab and get as much as possible through that marketplace as well (greedy of me, I know, but I can’t lose access to these assets…as I said, all of my plans depend on it). This is really the heart of my motives in asking this question. I like the idea of using Bridge to organize my assets. Not just the assets through Megascans, but also the assets that I’ve created myself. So, I am actually concerned about the future of Bridge in general, as well as it’s access to Megascans.
Any light that can be shed on this question would be great.
Edit: changed the question’s title for clarity.
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