Discord Announces "First on Discord" Games

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After Valve announced Discord-like chat features, Discord announced their own Steam-like game storefront just last month. Today, Discord revealed that the storefront will launch with games unavailable anywhere else. Last Year: The Nightmare, King of the Hat, Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption, At Sundown, and Bad North will all get timed releases on the storefront, though its not clear how long the games will remain Discord exclusives.

The company posted trailers for each game in the blog post, and you can check out their promotional video here.

We’re really excited to share this initial wave of First on Discord games. Look forward to these coming to the Discord store later this fall.
 
Meanwhile they still have core functionality not working right in windows 10. I still use it because it's what everyone uses, but I've become really good friends with my audio mixer
 
I'll be the odd man out - I hate Discord. Not because it doesn't work, but because it's set up as a social platform, with random people popping into the channel, blasting some audio meme, and then secretly putting their finger in my pants before leaving for another game of "Pooteez' Teabag Adventures."
 
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Discord is getting annoying with daily updates, unnecessary additions, confusing interface, and what appears to be a lack of listening to the community.
 
Again, yet another gaming platform trying to convince me to stop caring about steam. Sorry, but if so many others couldn't do it, discord won't.

Discord, you're a small fish in a sea of sharks.
 
I would love for Discord to just stick with what it's good at. I have no interest in using it to purchase games from...Steam, Battle.net, and GOG have those bases covered, tyvm.
 
Ugh, I don't want yet ANOTHER game service with "exclusive" games that I can't buy anywhere else. That means I'll have to install the app for that ONE game and leave it there so I can play it. It's bad enough I have to do that with origin and MS store, I don't want this at all. Hope it fails.
 
With all of these new competitive ideas springing up, maybe at some point some rich evil genius will invent hard copies! Then I'd switch off of steam at last!
 
Discord like many other apps started off great then get bloated with junk we don't want. Stick with comms. Stop with the video.
 
Moving to centralized comms is insanely stupid, it all inevitably becomes facebook. Look at LinkedIn..its facebook for business..Run your own comms folks..
 
It's starting to get as bad as TV shows with all their own services. Now games are starting to do the same thing. Eventually you're going to have dozens of steam like services
 
seanreisk said:
I'll be the odd man out - I hate Discord. Not because it doesn't work, but because it's set up as a social platform, with random people popping into the channel, blasting some audio meme, and then secretly putting their finger in my pants before leaving for another game of "Pooteez' Teabag Adventures."
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So why don't setup your own channels and block that kind of activity?
 
i cant stand discord now i get massive lag spikes in rocket league. I am sure the programmers have done this on purpose.. will just use steam voice chat for now on , have not tried the browser on discord but it would seem the app causes issues for me on my new build 8700k
 
NoOther said:
So why don't setup your own channels and block that kind of activity?
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It wasn't my place to do that. My experience with Discord goes back to my old WoW guild. WoW was close to one of its expansions and people in the guild were taking time off, so we decided to hook up with another guild and run some content. A chance to meet some new people.

Their guild used Discord, and it was crazy. The guild leader and all the guild members were nice people, but my guild was very old and a little bit 'serious', and we had some rigid chat habits. I remember a time we were fighting a boss and someone came into the channel, shot off some audio clips about 'balls' (from what I presume was EA NBA Live), then sat in the channel like a mollusk, occasionally coughing up a little sound nugget but never actually speaking. The guild leader laughed and said, "Hey, Spoosh, how's it going buddy?" then, "ooops, I'm dead."

Here's my problem with Discord - it's a culture. It's designed so you can easily find and join friends in chat. It's designed to be inclusive, it's designed for casual contact, for meeting people, and for filling in the time when you're waiting on a new spawn, etc. And that's fine, but that's not what I need when I'm playing an online team-based game.
 
travisty said:
Yeah... no. Steam already won. GoG for drm free too. No need for this.
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Yeah it's hard to see anyone really competing with Steam at this point. Valve was just so early to the idea and even pushed their big games at the time to Steam as killer apps. Which was kind of annoying actually because Steam was horribly buggy at first.

I still think Discord is a great app for chat and voice especially the integration of links, photos, videos, etc that you can use for gaming groups or just other random topics
 
travisty said:
Yeah... no. Steam already won. GoG for drm free too. No need for this.
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Steam is alright but 30% is a bit steep, no? Competition will no doubt force them to lessen their grip. When big publishers left they did so mostly for the same reason, no?

edit: what major publisher beyond EA has left Steam, though? I don't know :D
 
Since they started this discord has suffered with lagging voice chat, the extra isn't needed just charge me 2$ a month and give me what you started out as.
 
1Nocturnal101 said:
Since they started this discord has suffered with lagging voice chat, the extra isn't needed just charge me 2$ a month and give me what you started out as.
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Discord can't do that. It's an inclusive service. It might be good, it might be the best, it might even be worth $2 a month, but there will always be a percentage who won't (or can't) pay that, and once that percentage refuses and can't get into chat, any social group will go looking for a different service where everyone can talk.
 
seanreisk said:
I'll be the odd man out - I hate Discord. Not because it doesn't work, but because it's set up as a social platform, with random people popping into the channel, blasting some audio meme, and then secretly putting their finger in my pants before leaving for another game of "Pooteez' Teabag Adventures."
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You know they do make several controls and features to keep "random" people from popping in.

1. Set moderators and user levels
2. you can make channels voice or text only
3. you can lock to channels to certain users or by only being brought in
4. you can set your discord to invite only and only give yourself permissions to invite people

Not once have I ever had random people pop into my channels. If somebody was pissing me off and they didn't get the hint I just kick them from my server. The controls and setups are very simple and easy to do.
 
seanreisk said:
It wasn't my place to do that. My experience with Discord goes back to my old WoW guild. WoW was close to one of its expansions and people in the guild were taking time off, so we decided to hook up with another guild and run some content. A chance to meet some new people.

Their guild used Discord, and it was crazy. The guild leader and all the guild members were nice people, but my guild was very old and a little bit 'serious', and we had some rigid chat habits. I remember a time we were fighting a boss and someone came into the channel, shot off some audio clips about 'balls' (from what I presume was EA NBA Live), then sat in the channel like a mollusk, occasionally coughing up a little sound nugget but never actually speaking. The guild leader laughed and said, "Hey, Spoosh, how's it going buddy?" then, "ooops, I'm dead."

Here's my problem with Discord - it's a culture. It's designed so you can easily find and join friends in chat. It's designed to be inclusive, it's designed for casual contact, for meeting people, and for filling in the time when you're waiting on a new spawn, etc. And that's fine, but that's not what I need when I'm playing an online team-based game.
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It sounds like your problem is how that guild is using Discord, not with Discord itself. Almost all of the Discord groups I have joined have it organized and have rooms setup for various chat purposes, information, etc. They also usually have a main chat or guest channel that is the initial landing point until you are accepted as a member of the group and given more permissions to join other channels.
 
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