Over the past nine years, Discord has come an incredible journey from a browser chat to a unique cross-platform application with dozens of functions that are so loved by the entire gaming industry and far beyond its borders. Millions of gamers use the capabilities of this service to discuss news or play their favorite game with friends. Gaming companies are actively working with the community of their games, and some even make Discord the center of their work. For example, Amazon Games several years ago abandoned what it considered outdated forums and transferred communication with players to discord servers for specific games. Streamers, content creators, guilds, game portals – they all actively use the service’s capabilities to and develop their communities.
I’m currently ing the CBT client for the extraction shooter Exobornethe key for which I received through a bot in a closed channel on the official discord server of this game. A few hours before, in the official discord server of the Korean version of the MMORPG Throne and Liberty I read the questions and indignation of the players. Last night, in a closed channel, I watched a demonstration of the alpha version of a cooperative action game, which I can write about someday after the NDA is lifted. After writing this text, I will check the notifications that were received today from different servers. For many players, Discord has become the center of their hobby – gaming and everything connected with it.
The point is that now Discord is not just a text and voice chat, but that Discord in the modern world already sures forums, social networks and instant messengers in functionality and capabilities. And no matter how they put an owl on the globe, it simply has no competitors or analogues. No TeamSpeak, Skype or VK Messenger can become full-fledged analogues, even by ing forces.
Services like Guilded and Revolt initially position themselves as an alternative to Discord. And even they have a lot of problems: a small audience, not an intuitive interface, Guilded does not have a Russian interface and you need a Roblox to , while Revolt is not so easy to configure the server to suit your preferences and the mobile client is not so easy run. The functionality of these programs is enough for organizing communities or evening gatherings with friends, but they are not suitable for anything more. But not everyone needs mobile clients or subscriptions to some servers. And in this case, the choice of these services is completely justified. Until the blockages reach them too.
