perhaps some dedicated multiplayer integration? Just click a friend's icon in your chat to auto-launch game and join whatever he's playing?

that already exists

Steam has that, though

lots of different niche routes you could go and even a tiny slice of that Steam pie will keep your company well fed

yeah I realized it probably does

but development depends on the gaming company using the API

not Discord

uhuh, and partnerships and sponsorships are a thing. All Discord really has to say "Steam takes 30% of the price? Integrate this feature and we'll do 20%. You can sell your game on Steam too, we don't mind."

Yeah, I'm not disagreeing, there's just more to it than that

It could get going, but let's not act like it's an obvious business proposition

Many have tried and failed

@velvitonator Discord has data on all games people play

Steam afaik only has data on games on their platform

it is the obvious step to take

Discord only has data on Discord users, and those that actually use it in the right way

they also don't lose anything

That is likely a small fraction of Steam's data

you only need to have Discord active. As you use discord for everything. It has data on all games you play with it on

Belial back to the previous discussion, if you try searching or googling for terms like "Why did Discord get so popular", all that's really mentioned is that it's a lightweight (i.e. good) platform, and that it was advertised on Twitch. Nothing about lack of censorship so far like you claimed, no matter if I'm looking on Reddit, Quora, or some random forum

hell... hearing Discord sounds on youtube videos is now the norm, even

@Crow leddit and quota are lefty

the common ledditor wouldn't state lack of censorship as a plus

and the forums? those are lefty too right?

but it's there

This is all pretty much assertion

what do you think that happens in Discord servers from twitch streamers?

let me rephrase... why do you use this Discord Server?

this isn't a gaming server

this is for political discussion, mostly

in any case, since the top results for the terms I tried on both DuckDuckGo and Google mention good platform and good marketing as the primary causes of popularity, and these search results by definition are the most popular search results, it looks pretty clear-cut to me

Certified methodology (TM)

These are all empirical questions that nobody really has answers to

it's really not, but it beats "I feel it is the other way for everyone because that's how it is for me"

really not certified methology

The accepted wisdom is what Crow is saying, but it could not be the case

@velvitonator I made a personal question, he can certainly asnwer that

The question is: what supports the case

Why he uses it is irrelevant; you'd have to establish he's representative, which there's no way to do

oh for me Discord is part gaming part "forum 2.0"

And, given that he's a user on the server of an independent journalist, I doubt he's representative

@velvitonator that's my point though