Upcoming Changes to Affiliate Fees & Catalog Item Configuration Options

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@ShipooI

As someone who has ALSO run a clothing store, this argument makes little to no sense. There is no con to having hats in your store, if you integrate them correctly. It’s virtual floorspace, you can easily expand it or even make a virtual catalog (which is how I handled sales typically).

If you also run a clothing store then you should know the conversion rate is absurdly low compared to if you’re selling just shirts and pants. The reason you see solely clothes sold in most stores is because the 10% you got before this change wasn’t enough to justify putting the work and effort in creating places where users could purchase UGC content. As for selling it on the virtual floorspace that takes a good amount of data especially if you plan on selling dozens or even hundreds of hats and have to load their meshes. You’re right, you could do a virtual catalog but the conversion rates on those are still absurdly low and there’s little to no point in making one if you only get 10% of the sales at the time, with this new update there is more of an incentive and you likely will see more UI catalogs in things such as clothing stores.

@ShipooI

Let’s also not forget that UGC creators do not have fine control over WHO gets to sell their items. It’s an ‘all or nothing’ situation right now. They may not even WANT most games to sell their stuff. I know plenty who would want more fine control so their assets are not being represented in games that have bad reputations or go against their beliefs.

It says right here they have control

@CKALLDAY18

We have also provided an additional option in the item configuration panel for creators of these items to determine where their items can be sold. Initially, these options will be:

• Avatar Shop and All Places
• Avatar Shop and My Places
• Avatar Shop only

This is likely just the beginning so expect them to add more customizations on who can sell what items in the future.

@ShipooI

Not true. I’ve run catalogs in games that I’ve partnered with to produce clothing for their NPCs, there is plenty incentive already for adding UGC and Clothing to existing games, especially if they match your theme. Perhaps bigger devs haven’t caught on to that yet, but believe me, the demand is there. A 30/40 split does nothing but rub salt into UGC makers, if they INSIST on ‘incentivizing’ Developers more, 35/35 would likely be more palatable. This is coming from someone with experience in clothing sales in non-clothing games, and experience as a developer.

You completely ignored my point and tried to say I said something I never did, I never said there was no demand for UGC content in games I said as of this moment developers have a much higher and a much more profitable incentive to sell hats through ingame currencies or hat packs. The amount developers get for selling UGC items compared to what they would get for selling a pack of them for much less and for a higher percentage outweighs this new update.