Epic Is Merging Its Digital Asset Stores Into One Huge Marketplace (theverge.com) 12
Epic Games' next big plan for the metaverse is to unify all of its disparate asset marketplaces under one brand, Fab. The Verge reports: The new store will include assets from the Unreal Engine Marketplace, Quixel Bridge, Artstation Marketplace, and Sketchfab, and Epic will give creators 88 percent of earnings on the store, like it does for the Epic Games Store. On Fab, you'll be able to get a vast amount of digital assets, including "3D models, materials, sound, VFX, digital humans, and more," Epic says. And the company is positioning it as an open marketplace that will support "all engines, all metaverse-inspired games which support imported content, and the most popular digital content creation packages." In theory, that means you won't need to be an Unreal Engine developer to get value from the store.
Fab is set to launch later this year, though it's available in alpha as a plugin for the new Unreal Editor for Fortnite tools.
Fab is set to launch later this year, though it's available in alpha as a plugin for the new Unreal Editor for Fortnite tools.
Still Get The Free Game Every Week? (Score:3)
I like that feature. I've been able to pick up some legit good titles from their program.
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Epic Games != Epic Games Store. This is not what is being discussed here.
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It is all the same collection of zero's and one's to me. But thank you for your input, as I am sure it will go down in history as one of the greatest comments ever.
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It is all the same collection of zero's (sic) and one's (sic) to me.
It is a collection of zeroes and ones, but not the same collection. Unless you consider them all as belonging to universe of zeroes and ones?
But thank you for your input, as I am sure it will go down in history as one of the greatest comments ever.
Right back at you.
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It is all the same collection of zero's and one's to me.
If you're downloading something from Artstation Marketplace and expecting it to be some kind of a free game from the Epic Games Store you're going to be very disappointed. ... Or very pleased when the next round of medication is prescribed to you.
But thank you for your input, as I am sure it will go down in history as one of the greatest comments ever.
I'm not aiming for greatness. I'm just trying to help a fellow human not look like an irrelevant ignorant dolt. Unfortunately there's only so much I can do. I know when I'm out of my depth and when people are beyond help. Good luck "playing" your Unreal engine art
Tencent (Score:1)
and by Tencent, you mean the CCP. (Score:2)
But yea, you're right. [wikipedia.org]
In January 2023, OpenSecrets reported that Tencent spent over $6.3 million lobbying the U.S. federal government after coming under greater regulatory scrutiny in 2020