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Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Where are the Discord alternatives? Just in cause Discord goes to hell

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Meh, I couldn't care less. Never used anything but the basic features, and if anyone wants to throw money at them, that's their choice.

As long as I'm not rate limited when using the regular chat in the free tier, I'm good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The issue is that once they start heading down that path, they will probably start enshittifying the experience for non-paying users.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I won't pay for anything that discord offers. I understand that companies are there to make money but they do not have anything of actual value to sell me. I don't care about emojis or Nitro or whatever. I just want a chat client that allows me to communicate with people I play certain games with. In-game chat can do this as well and I will simply go back to that if the monetization of discord gets to be too big of a problem. It's less convenient and sometimes sucks when folks are on different platforms but it's free.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hmm. This makes too much sense to me for me to be mad. Discord can easily compete with patreon the way I see it. Obviously, they could fuck it up and ruin the whole platform but if their team has more than a few brain cells it should work out fine right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

vomits

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Oh yeah sure, this would be cool and all if they didn't screw 99% of their users out of their usernames first.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Can't wait for the 2nd hand free exclusive meme trading scene!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Capitalism claiming it's next victim.

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