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Discord users can now buy in-game items without leaving the platform

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Discord users can now buy in-game items without leaving the platform | TechCrunch

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This is innovation! Now I don't even have to play the games to get a sense of satisfaction.
Wow, this is ✨cancer✨
- This is just each patch note for Discord. It's so hard to move people off it though, ughhhh
  
  Yeah i haven't convinced a single person off of it. They complain anything else is too hard.
  I miss techy people from the early 2000s that didnt bitch about setting up voice servers.
Good lord! I’ve been trying to get my friends off of discord and onto my matrix server. This is the worst
- Same. Now i just call them on steam if we play a game. Discord got so cancerous.
Still waiting for a competitor that I can get my friends to switch to.
No, Matrix doesn't seem to be it. Nor does IRC or XMPP. People don't care to deal with the "hassle".
- Teamspeak seems to be the closest, but the newest versions bringing more discord-like features aren’t there yet.
  Maybe I just want to return to the old days lol.
  
  Teamspeak is so close to being amazing. The only problems I have are that it’s not open source, and even when you self-host a ts server, a lot of data still goes through their servers. Oh also, I can’t screen share with audio on Linux
- There will not be a worth while competitor because the only way you can overcome the network effect is billion dollar marketing campaigns. And you don't get those without being on the same enshitification pipeline as discord.
- I finally bit the bullet and joined discord last year.
  Okay damn this is a pretty stable system with video streaming and voice chat. And the communities.
- Why not mumble?
This has negative appeal for me. I don't want to buy slop in games. I don't even want to use discord. It's the children who are out of touch.
Now excuse me, I have to go yell at some clouds.
- Its true, the children are indoctrinated and dont know better. Unfortunately, we will lose.
- Hey, if y'all could fix Teamspeak and Matrix so they don't feel like voice channels for ARMA games (and that's it), I might have some success convincing my community to switch.
Game publishers: We aren't predating on children fast enough. How will we ever achieve infinite money if we don't predate on children faster?
Discord management: We can help with that.
Why would you buy game items if you don't want to actually open the game
Waiting on the eventual “‘Hackers’ leaked your transaction details through Discord’s in-app purchases.”

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