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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.

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[–] Strider@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A lot of gamers actively chose this.

When the teamspeak debacle happened due to the license change a lot of players left out spite and instead of choosing the logical route to independence (like foss alternatives) many went directly to the then soon rising discord to suffer differently in another golden cage.

I will never understand (I chose mumble/murmur).

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm not here to stan for Discord, it's pretty crappy. But at the time it first hit the scene it was the killer support app for gaming.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It wasn't. It just copied slack when it was becoming popular in the dev work world with a marketing blitz. It coincided with team speak sudden death. Slack did most of the marketing and discord bandwagoned on it as the fun slack for video games. Which in essence was just "what if IRC but with voice chat rooms."

Video game support wasn't part of Discord intent until people started using it for it. Then they hacked the UX nightmare that is their solution for something the app was never meant to do.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

There's a lot of rationalization there. It was simply the best technical product with lots of killer features when it was rising. People used it because it was the best solution at the time, don't kid yourself.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

This isn't about people choosing one bad voice chatter over another. This is people who can't bother to use the best tool for the job.

(And web fora aren't it)

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Guess you'll have to leak secret military documents the old-fashioned way: posting them on the War Thunder forums.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hold up, are people really stupid enough to send classified documents over fucking Discord?

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

...now I think about it, I don't know why I even asked, there's always one who's stupid enough to do ANYthing.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's actually a running joke because so many people post classified military documents to the warthunder forums

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I refuse to join any of these in protest, and when I can't submit bug reports via public forums I will rate the negatively.

I am firmly against using closed chat platforms such as discord for informational and support.

Years down the road obscure issues with the game are going to be unavailable either due to the server being abandoned or inability to look for issues soley due to everything being on discord now. I refuse to take part in it.

I'm only in one discord that is based off a game, and that is satisfactory exclusively because I was in the alpha program so It seemed right that I joined the main discord after the alpha ended.

Honestly this is one of the few cases where I wish steam would step in and say "games on the platform must have support on the platform"

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I haven't seen many steam games that don't use the steam forums... is there a particular example that isn't using them?

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Many of them "use" them, as in have them enabled to allow for members of the community to post to them, and sometimes they might offer patch note releases for updates via the announcement system or major issue posts, but most of them don't actually provide support and assistance via them or even moderate them at times. Huge problem actors are inde studios but, even large producers have the issue. My latest one that I tried to post a bug report to is Phasmaphobia, which locks all support to their discord, but like most games don't do official support via the forums and the only support you may find is if someone in the community has a workaround or fix.

edit: for the heck of it ill look at the current top 20 and see which offer official community support.

  1. battlefield 6: skipped cause not released
  2. Counterstrike 2: Contains patch notes; No Support, support is via steam help and email
  3. steam deck (skipped cause hardware)
  4. Blue Protocol: Star Resonance: No Steam Support
  5. Little Nightmare 3: Skipped not released
  6. Digimon Story Time Stranger: No support, recommended to go through website
  7. Little nightmare 3 bundle (skipped not released)
  8. megabonk: contains patch notes, no forum support
  9. Wuthering Waves: Contains partial patch notes; No Forum Support
  10. dead by daylight: No forum support: contains link to bug report and issue official forums.
  11. Absolum: officially supports
  12. Arena Breakout: infinite: contains patch notes no support
  13. Call of Duty®: patch notes; no support
  14. Black Ops 6 DLC blackcell: Skipped as DLC
  15. Arc Raiders: Skipped not released
  16. Ghost of Tushima: patch notes; No Support; contains link to official support knowledge base
  17. Borderlands 4: patch notes; Major issue workarounds pinned but no official support
  18. marvel rivals: patch notes; no official support
  19. yooka-laylee owner discount: (bundle so skipped?)
  20. Sonic Racing: crossworlds: patch notes No official support, issue pinned to give location for support.

Method to detect support:

I clicked the game, went to the discussions, if it had patch notes i noted it, if it has a community support tab or bug fix tab or comments that have staff responses I considered it community support. Else I marked it as no support. If it had a clear area to get support I noted that

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 18 points 2 days ago

Thank the gods I'm not the only one! Chat rooms are a terrible way to get community feedback, and the bigger the community, the worse it gets. I tried it a couple of times and find it nigh on useless.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

The only time I would even stop for a second to consider that maybe it's a good thing for devs to be like "Join Our Discord!" would be for things like pokemon fan games or something like Plants VS Zombies Universe, where Sintendo or EA could come in and drop nukes on these innocent enough seeming ( most of the time ) devs.

I obviously don't want the corpo clown creeps coming in and destroying under development fan games ( especially PVZ Universe or Pokemon Empire ), but surely we must have better platforms to hide projects on, right? I mean, come on, we're living in the year 2026, not 2006.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like corporate logic to me. "Successful games have lots of positive community engagement!" Therefore.. if we push 'community engagement' our game will be successful! Let's track this metric to see how well this game is doing compared to our 497 other games and whether or not to invest in bug fixes and DLCs.

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Damn you seem competent, do you have an MBA?

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Nope, just your run of the mill cynic.

[–] kartoffelsaft@programming.dev 14 points 2 days ago

I posted a negative review of kithack model club over this exact issue and got 50/50 clown to other awards on it. When I also talked a bit about it on the steam forums, I noticed there's a guy who clearly isn't working for the dev and goes to every post to tell them to go to the discord. I'd be fine with that if he didn't also argue with anyone who doesn't think that's good. Some people man.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I'm not interested that means I'm probably not going to bring anything interesting for the discussion

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If I’m not interested that means I’m probably not going to bring anything interesting for the discussion

Ever tried to have a discussion on discord? It's the most infuriating thing I have ever encountered.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Two questions:

Which game?

What would they win with having players on the Discord server?

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago
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[–] CovfefeKills@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Yea I was steam banned by the stormworks developer because of what I said in discord. Don't diss trump over there.

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