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Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 week ago by Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world

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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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[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Eh, it's entirely logical.

Let me explain:

The area that most indi developers underperform at is.... Marketing. Many of them put their heart and soul into a game and then completely fail to gather a community or audience that is interested in such a game.
so what is one of the easiest ways that a developer who has effectively no social media skills can gather a community of interested individuals to talk about provide feedback and announce changes to?
most of the target audiences for most games are going to be on social media
You expect to chat with your community and so do your users that care
Discord is a well-established platform, with a large ecosystem and many integrations meant to target games
The developer chooses Discord as it is effectively the best option for their situation and available resources

This makes perfect sense. I don't see why you should be outraged about something of this sort.

That said:

If you don't want to join the Discord, you don't have to.

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 10 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I was like OP. I fucking hate discord.

But then, this little indie game in early access had a bug, but I couldnt find where to email them. So reluctantly, I joined shitty ass discord, sent the dev a screenshot, and within like 15 minutes, the dev was able to figure out the fix.

I stuck around and saw more threads. Updates, future fixes, other people doing speed runs, even a place people were making fan art.

And that's when he realized Discord isnt so shitty, because that solo dev now has all this conversation and people motivating them.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago

wouldn't it be 100x better if the same thing was accessible on the public web and searchable?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But then discord sold all his data to GenAI

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

From the perspective of the indie dev who was able to make a life, career, and grow his audience... Id think they'd be happy with that outcome.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

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....

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The trend of defacing games with social media links is one of the most annoying developments of the past 15 years or so.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And then, "@everyone next update coming soon" or whatnot

Thanks for the notification 🫠

(The first thing I do on every Discord server I join is mute it. I want to be very selective about notifications.)

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

😉

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 12 points 6 days ago

When a developer replied to my Steam review with

Feel free to help out in the community with suggestions to improve the game! I've updated the game to include a in game discord link!

🤨 Yeah, not interested in joining your Discord to give feedback on your game when that could be done in Steam Discussions too. Or, you know, start with taking my review as genuine feedback.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I know this is very unpopular, but something like Discord is very much preferable for real-time conversations than a forum. The interactions with developers and players is a lot more natural, and having a voice chat is always nice.

Discord can also have separate chat rooms about specific issues that can be tagged and searched.

So the functionality of discord is second to none. The only real issue with discord is enshitification. It is very enshitified, and the only way to mostly circumvent that is to have a custom discord client.

If only Matrix was as fully-functional and easy to install and use with just a click.

[–] charles@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

In my opinion, the biggest issue with pushing communities to Discord is that it traps the information within that platform and their search leaves a lot to be desired.

Discord is a good platform to build a community around a topic, however, more often than not, a lot of solutions to common problems become lost or hard to find for new players/users.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

discord is a communication platform for friends to game on. nothing more, nothing less.

It should not be an information archive.

It should not be a source of tech support.

It shouldnt be a source of important news/announcements.

All that shit should be on your fucking website, where it can be indexed, archived, and searched for.

Cause discord isolates information in such a way that you will never be able to find out unless you actively use discord, actively hunt down the right discord channel, and properly luck into finding the information.

verses just going to a web browser and typing " [game name] [bug description]" and likely getting the solution, or at least relevant information, in the first 3 returns.

Discord holds information hostage, and kills it should a channel shut down/delete, losing it forever... and anyone that has played older games know that some of that information and community fixing is essential, even a decade+ later.

bring back fucking forums

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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But it's all hidden. It's not searchable or discoverable. I have zero desire to join or be part of discord. It's like a hidden part of the internet.

If you want to talk about your game put it out in public. You can have a web page a forum and a chat without that stupid shit that is discord.

[–] douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

You're talking about a place for suggestions and help which can be driven to something like discourse. Which is a platform specifically made for q&A. But it is not well suited for the type of interaction you would expect in a Discord server. It's not providing the controls and integration that Discord provides, nor is it providing voice chat capabilities and cross interaction.

Discord as much as we all hate it. For the enshitification. is a well-established high population low friction platform for community engagement.

And one of the number one rules when it comes to community engagement is that you go to where your community has the least amount of friction. They don't come to you.

If that was a community that preferentially used IRC then the developer should preferentially use IRC. Unfortunately, target gaming audiences preferentially use Discord and are already familiar with the platform. Anything else is adding friction that reduces community growth.

These are the facts of the matter. I'm not saying these in support of Discord. It's kind of a shitty situation

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[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm with you. I actually like discord.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

enjoy it. its a great platform to communicate with your friends in game on.

but its not a place for tech support, breaking announcements, etc etc etc

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[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

It kills me every time I see a support or community forum fall to Discord.

Fuck, even PROFESSIONAL APPS have started doing this shit (example Parsec).

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 days ago

Because a big "Join our community discord server!" on the game's title screen isn't enough apparently.

Man I hate this shit. So tacky

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Two questions:

Which game?

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

[–] Sylra@lemmy.cafe 9 points 6 days ago

A lot of small indie or fan games love to hide on Discord. Got banned? Appeal it on Discord. Wanna submit feedback? Come on over to Discord!

What do they gain from this? Besides making their content impossible to find in search engines, clearly they're optimizing for maximum inconvenience and peak exclusivity. Nothing says "accessible community" like forcing players to re-ask the same questions in a walled-off chat nobody can Google.

[–] XM34@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Because having your entire community on one platform is just a hell of a lot more convenient and manageable especially for smaller development studios. And Discord offers way better tools for moderation and real time discussions than any other tool I know.

Sure, the searchability via search engines is pretty much none existent. But then again, you don't really need that if all information regarding your game can be found via the Discord search.

Additionally, players from all platforms can contribute and ask questions on Discord. The same is not true for e.g. the Steam User Forum.

There's a lot of problems with Discord and I feel like it's only gonna get worse now that they're public. But being blatantly oblivious to the obvious reasons why developers are choosing Discord over its alternatives helps no one.

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