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Discord Opens a New Beta Storefront & a Unified Launcher - MMORPG.com News
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Discord Opens a New Beta Storefront & a Unified Launcher - MMORPG.com News
Discord is ready to take Steam on head-to-head with today's opening of a brand new storefront. Today's offering is a collection of titles that are favorites of the staff, but the number of games for sale will increase over time. In what is probably its best feature, however, Discord will, at a user's request, scan PCs to see what games are installed and place them in a single location. It's sort of a "virtual bookshelf" and will allow games to be launched from a single application.
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Plus they are teasing Discord Nitro giving you access to a library of games right now. I'm wondering if they are setting it up for a subscription based service.
The only reason I'm not complaining about yet another launcher with games attached, is most people who play PC games right now with friends have discord, so it isn't like you are starting up another program, you are just using it in a different way.
While this is true, people need to keep trying. One company can't control all digital games on PC. If other platforms that aren't developer specific keep opening up, and even one of them sticks, we get a better situation overall.
We need more options!
I wish them and Brightlocker all the best. Also curious if Twitch will do the same soon, will be watching.
Still I do hope that someone will be able to rival Steam. Competition = better offers/conditions for the players.
Beta tester maniac
I do not trust a company that can revoke access from rightfully purchased product because a user does not politically align with them.
I do not trust someone that thinks a company should not take responsibility for how there own GAMING (quote, underline, neon lights) platform is used, thats just odd. Besides the base product is free.
Discord is a social platform and is leveraged for tons of gaming-unrelated content such as organizing VOIP talks for podcsts, social media and collaboration. I even know of some small businesses that leverage it.
Discord made the choice to make the product free. And as the old saying goes, if something is free, YOU are the product being marketed.
Again, the justification was very nebulous and lacking in transparency, but Discord has proven that they will revoke your usage of their product based purely on political reasoning. That is a treacherous area to trend into and one I would not put my money into.
It is an especially unwise position to take if you're looking to challenge the superior market might of an apolitical entity like Valve.
I find people are throwing the politics label on things too broadly and we need to get back to basics, I am not a political person i'm one that likes to play games and not have to go into to game chats having to tolerate subjects a chat isn't made for.
You will need to be clearer on what incident you are referring too but get back to basics, companies need to take responsibility for what they encourage. Period.
Soon PC gaming libraries will have exclusive titles to force people to use them, aka the PC version of console exclusives!
But Amazon is also not laying low with Twitch push into a gaming and store platform, with Steam loosing big companies releasing AAA titles on it, doomsday might be upon us \o/
Except we already have exclusive platforms. The developer platforms. Some developers like Ubisoft still release on steam but look at Origin, the only place where you can play some of the EA digital games.
Yes!
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
Who defines hate speech? Lately, if you say hello to someone with the wrong inflection, some special snowflake conjures up a reason to define it as hate speech.
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Wikipedia to name one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
Typical response though.
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Your attitude is questionable but i'll use more of my time to link you something you can google yourself so its more to your standard http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/hate
Edit: To save anymore needs to link something from somewhere that suits every individual reader they are all the same:
"Speech that demeans on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, age, disability, or any other similar ground is hateful"
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I need evidence of this to continue contributing to your responses.
Just because a word becomes more common for folks to use or hear does not change its meaning. That's what I think is mixed up more than the grounds themselves.
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I hope you know who defines it now, lawmakers do. Then the terms of service that a platform provides. Since we are talking about Discord you can read their TOS here:
https://discordapp.com/terms
Now you don't need to ask that question again. Have a good one.
That said, stop with the political rhetoric, please or mods will close the thread.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯