How Discord Went Mainstream

Re:How Discord Went Mainstream by fvjft on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:36AM (#19387670)

Apart from the (more than obvious) technical feats, they've raised a lot of money and can afford to offer all of their services, some of them a bit expensive, for free. If they can't find a way to monetise, though, they'll be in trouble.

Had TeamSpeak or Mumble been able to offer hosted services for free, maybe Discord wouldn't have existed.

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Re:How Discord Went Mainstream by Semaphor on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:31AM (#19387959)

They have pushed monetization recently. Discord Nitro went from custom id, animated avatar and all emotes of all your servers everywhere to a game subscription service (obviously while raising the price)

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Re:How Discord Went Mainstream by starshadowx2 on Thursday March 14, 2019 @02:57PM (#19392331)

There is still the Nitro classic with just the extra account features, the game subscription is an extra piece if you want it.

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Re:How Discord Went Mainstream by fvjft on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:04AM (#19388112)

I looked at the games when they launched and they all were indie rubbish, so what can I tell you.

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Re:How Discord Went Mainstream by Semaphor on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:14AM (#19388173)

Besides a bunch of lootbox stuff for the kiddie shooters, there is Civ IV, XCOM:EU, Bioshock 1&2, Metro 2033 Redux, Project Highrise, Metro Last Light Redux, OOTP18, Tyranny, and so on.

Most of those are not for me, but Indie rubbish seems a bit off.

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