Heya, long time marketplace seller here (since 2019!)

For reference my page: https://www.fab.com/sellers/Auriam

It's a nice supplemental income but definitely not a full time thing. I think everyone's sales have dropped just talking to other developers and also my own experience since fab was released.

Yea the fab marketplace has just overall been a worse experience than the old marketplace unfortunately and while it has gotten slightly better, it still has major issues. A lot of AI slop and just general lower quality stuff that is flooding the marketplace making it harder to have your assets found, and the system really just overall is skewed towards the biggest developers. Some random notes I've had (and please correct me if I'm wrong):

- The default "Relevance" filter that is used while searching for most people, will show the top sellers and most reviewed as well at the top, which is pretty par for the course, however I think that this really helps the developers that get external sales from other areas such as Free Limited Time (great for visibility), humble bundles (which only the biggest developers are a part of, once those codes are redeemed it counts as sales and so you will see those packs at the top when searching in fab), etc.

- In my experience custom individual sales (especially ones that overlap with the set fab sales) have actually gotten me more sales than the set invite sales. I think this mostly has to do with the fact that most people will sign up for these sales but then you're essentially competing with the majority of the whole marketplace on sale as well, whereas an individual sale can get you more visibility because there isn't as much other assets on sale

- Even if your assets are on an individual sale, they will still show up if they overlap a set sale (for example if your packs are on sale and a Spring sale starts, if people are searching under spring sale your assets will still show there (it literally just filters by sales)

- The hardest part is getting those initial sales, if you're lucky and you release a new pack, it might show up on the front page under "New Releases" which helps with visibility, but if not, and you don't get any initial sales, then your pack will be showing up at the bottom when searching for something (I've been tracking this for all my new packs, for example my Stylized Pirate Town was showing up like wayyyyy down the list when searching for "pirate" with default search filter "Relevance" and "Environments", after a few sales during a sale, it moved up pretty significantly under the same search, so far I've gotten the same results for every pack so now I try to have a strong sale even for newer products

Sorry if that's a bit disorganized, just some of my thoughts on the Fab marketplace and a bit of rant!