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.
Yep, it’s a practical choice that improves the quality of their work and their community engagement by promoting rapid feedback cycles.
BTW how’d you stumble upon the Indi game?
The thing that I suck at the most is advertised out what I’m making, and it’s hurt me, a lot…