Because a big “Join our community discord server!” on the game’s title screen isn’t enough apparently. They have to put a flashy animated GIF at the top of every update notification, change the name of the game’s Steam forum to “Join Our Discord!”, and even reply to posts in the Steam forum saying “You should join our discord so we can chat about it!” as if a forum isn’t a good place to chat about the thing that’s already being discussed.
Bitch please, if I wanted to be in the hell that is Discord I’d already be there, you can stop asking.
But you could have all of this on your own page. You could run a chat there. You could have forums there.
Discord is friction. You have to join. You have to put up with the shttiest interface. You can’t search and find anything in it if you are not on it.
A game maker that says cone to my discord is going to piss me off and make me not interested in their game.
I am not going to want to join things to find out about them.
And by the way, I really don’t want to talk to anyone about a game, I want to search for issues or report them and move on.
Its a game not an online live discussion
Yeah, and for every dozen hours spent on building a “shitty discord” that’s a dozen hours not spent building the game.
And then there’s the high friction. Now people need to sign up for your special website, sign up for your special chat, add another app to their phone if you even provide one…etc When 9/10 of those same people already have a Discord account and are already active on Discord.
You don’t appear to understand what friction means. Because using an established platform that the majority of your community already uses isn’t high friction…
It doesn’t matter what the platform is. You bring yourself to the platform your users use. It just so happens that at this point in time it is Discord and this wasn’t always the case and it won’t always be the case.
You keep talking about how you don’t want to join to find out information how you don’t want to chat about the game.
Okay. That’s fine, that’s your choice, Why are you trying to shove your choice down other people’s throat then, you don’t have to join, you don’t have to talk about the game. It’s not required.
Well from every person I asked who uses discord, the last thing they want is to have to deal with game devs on discord. Making a website and chat is so stupid simple, I question if a gaming dev can make a good game if they can’t do that.
Game devs don’t want to spend time hosting and managing a forum, they want to make a game
Discord isn’t friction as most developers and gamers use Discord regularly. You refusing to use Discord makes you a tiny minority. So it’s friction for you, and you personally.
These same people want an online live discussion about the issues in the game. This again makes you part of a tiny minority that doesn’t want that.
Since you’re part of a minority, developers lose nothing by your lack of interest in the Discord community they’ve created. A game certainly won’t fail if you choose to ignore Discord. Rather, a game is likely to fail if there doesn’t exist any Discord community for it.
Yeah I guess. Hiding their game in a proprietary black hole is their business I guess. In a few years their game will be forgotten all discussion lost and no-one will care.
Again, they could have all the same thing on their own site and include live discussions.
But people want shit apparently so here we are.
And it might be worth pointing put that discord users themselves have begun complaining about server fatigue. Many suggesting they don’t want live support for every game. They want to look up issues and move on.
Isn’t there a limit to the servers you can join? Isn’t it 100? I know many people already at that limit. How are new games going to crack that problem?