New Asset Store Layout feels like a downgrade

No idea. But it’s coming. And Unity does listen, so that’s a big plus, just write your concerns. Of course not every concern is solvable, but they have to find a common denominator and they will. It’s a matter of getting adjusted :wink:

Anyway, they also have to fix black mode UI which is the reason for me not liking the new Layout.

The search and sorting are still a mess and i dont see any improvement or a Popularity sorting yet, so is defintly looking unusable so far.

Maybe is fixed, maybe not though as is long time now and the sorting gets more and more broken, is not consistent even between simple searches, looks totally random.

Which means there can not be a business in the new store and will need to reconsider Unity assets development as a whole.

The whole concept of making code based store assets was based on the Popularity sorting, so the more an asset is developed, supported and updated the more the sales through the exposure of the asset.

Now any effort means nothing, as the asset can be randomly placed in 100.000 position and get zero sales.

2 months in and they started forcing it when i try to search something by name and in the homepage, its still pretty bad, i hate the way unity likes to push unfinished stuff to the public replacing something that was already functional, they should at least leave it as an option “Try out new layout” if they want to get feedback.

Hello everyone,

I’m Jonathan from the Asset Store team.

Thank you all for your valuable feedback.

We’ve already taken some of your suggestions to heart and are working on several key improvements:

  • Enhanced Sorting and Filtering: We are prioritizing new sorting and filtering options, including popularity sorting, to refine our search experience.
  • Search Pipeline Enhancements: We are focused on improving our search pipeline to deliver more accurate and relevant results.
  • Ongoing UI/UX Updates: We are continuously refining the user interface and experience based on your feedback.

Please do keep sharing your feedback and suggestions. While we may not be able to respond to every individual comment, rest assured that we are continuously reviewing and documenting all the insights that you provide.

That is some great news :), thanks for the update and considering restoring the more stable Popularity sorting

By importance when looking for something new to buy is sort all store or the needed category by Popularity to check the top selling assets, and then the search which also make more sense when first sorted by Popularity

Just make it like it is currently is, anything less than that is frankly a downgrade… also think you guys could make it easier for us to get the invoice number of an asset we own, seeing as it has becoming a tedious thing to get hold of later down the line as proof of purchase for some discord chan/bot/pm etc

Seconded! Asset authors usually ask for this when offering support.

Totally agree … If you click on an asset you own, the details should be shown, like
invoice number…

Unity, please try to make the new store. " Look " like the old store.

I agree some one up the stream, said it looks like kindergarten with the way
the assets are displayed… I mean the pictures … New tech underlay, but old looks on top …

It’s too late now, but letting things settle down with the forum changes.
Spectrum people need time to adept… The question is… In game design … It is not
easy … I wonder how many are NOT Neurotypical ?

Environment Building Bundle

By Popularity in my page - 2ond

By Popularity in whole store - page 1

By Relevance in my page - 5th

By Relevance in whole store - page 14

Hi,

Thanks again for all the feedback

Is it also possible to have a time frame for the restoration of Popularity sorting as default in the new store ?

This will directly affect massively our future in the store, as the Popularity default sorting is the main store benefit, because having a quality asset and giving constant support result in extra exposure, so can keep the same level of upgrades and support at the lower prices.

Currently my most selling and top in revenue asset by far (Environment Building Bundle) and in 1st store page by Popularity, is in the 14th page by Relevance and some of my most irrelevant assets are far above it. This asset produces 10x more revenue than my 2ond best seller this month also!

How is it possible to not be my most relevant asset ?

This is way beyond unacceptable, make zero sense and can destroy our business in the store directly.

Please let us know what is the plan so can see what we will do with asset development and if it is possible to stay in the store.

It has been a very long time now and the sorting still make zero sense and killing sales by promoting my older lower impact assets in front.

I don’t know why discounts are always calculated at the last step, it would be much easier to see what you are about the buy if they are shows in the cart already.

right now I have situation that it actually is discounted to free but I don’t see that until I press proceed to checkout.

Can this be fixed?

Indeed very true, the actual prices are not shown until visit the asset page or sometimes in the final stage before payment

This has been greatly confusing and is many years now like that, hopefully can be corrected in the new store

Hi,

Is there any news on restoring the Popularity sorting ?

Currently even in my own publisher page the sorting makes zero sense, my top assets are burried in last positions, it is critical and urgent to restore a real sorting like the Popularity one asap.

We are loosing vastly in sales currently due to the broken sorting and has now been months like this.

Thanks

Adding “Popularity” (or “Best selling”, either way, the same algorithm) is being worked on. I don’t have an ETA, but it’s an active project.

Btw it would be nice having that also in the “My Assets” view. There is no filter like that there. I’m having to dig through a lot of trash I’ve accumulated over the years to find some space assets :smiley:

That is great news, thanks :slight_smile:

Also having this in our publisher page or search by publisher name as default is of upmost importance, as currently irrelevant older or lowest selling assets appear on top, giving a very wrong preview of the actual quality of the collection.

This could make a difference between getting multiple sales to the user leaving the page without even engaging any assets.

Another notice is that now the stars can be 4.5 for example, this is very misleading imo as a 5 star asset before now shows as 4 star, with a strange half star that is not clear what is it. I dont object with .5 scoring, just think should show 10 stars max, to really show the asset value.

Is much different showing 9 out of 10 stars versus 4 stars and a half one. Maybe is also that the black part of the 4.5 star appear less than the white, making it hard to tell the 0.5 star, making it look negative.

Another idea is remove the star border, e.g half star be a true half black star without border that confuses. Or make the border less evident and the black part of half star little bigger.

An example of the problem with ranking by rating. The sorting make no sense.

It should be a combination of the rating count and score, than just the score.

There is 9 assets with less than 10 reviews appear far in front from my Bundle asset with 318 reviews.

It seems the new downgrade of our scores with half stars and the new randomized sorting has killed any sales now. Even with two major assets included in the sale.

This is just so sad to see after all these years of constant effort and support on the store. Seems like a game over for us.

Just chiming in that I absolutely loathe the new layout and haven’t bought anything since it rolled out because the buying experience has just been more difficult. Similar to another user above, I used to use the greyed out assets as a scanning / filtering tool to visually find assets I was looking for from a search. The new UI makes purchased assets almost indistinguishable at a glance. I hate it.

Edit: Just realising that the preview feature is now also totally missing where I could view the asset media at a glance. It’s just functionally worse…

I found a bug - currently on this page, when you start typing in the search bar it auto deselects and the typing stops. Which means you can only get one letter out of the keyboard before you have to reselect the search bar. So I have to select it and type one letter again over and over again to actually spell out a search term before it deselects.

The cookie save preferences are also broken - I enabled all then went to save - managed to watch a preview of an asset because it recognised my cookies were saved. Then tried for another asset and it said again I need to re-enable them. The store is currently totally unusable for me.

Don’t take this the wrong way but if someone at Unity is reading this can I be removed from this trainwreck untested beta? Nothing personal but I’d like to make some progress with my game rather than deal with this nonsense. Cheers.