I'm not used to making videos with my voice, can't seem to get used to it when it's recorded.
Anyways, I thought that maybe someone on Facepunch would like to release their game on Discord Store. It's a really great system, you sell to people that are on your servers and the revenue split is fantastic.
The bad part is the documentation (at least when I was using it) so I've made a video pointing out some gotchas.
https://youtu.be/VTJG8iqSELU
discord.gg/sandboxes
They've changed how the store functions. Now they want the store to be a way to sell to your community directly, without competition and adverts.
They used to have a storefront. Then they just got rid of it without telling anyone. No advance warning or anything, they just switched everyone to this system.
So you are a developer that had a game on it back then and you didn't receive a warning?
Yeah I was wondering where that went. That's weird.
Really interested to see where this goes.
Yes, I'm the Community Manager for Minion Masters. I pretty much run our Discord server for the company. I don't necessarily think it's a bad idea, mind - Community orientated selling is actually a pretty interesting and novel concept.
Yeah it does seems like Discord is now just Nitro and hosting games' page and download server. They stealthily exited the store business.
I mean it's still a store but much different than the normal stores.
Really useful! I spent some time trying to figure this out a while back and couldn't figure it out.
There's a current experimant for Activity Feed 2.0. Premium Home Recommended applications
In addition, there's datamine showing you can visit the contents of a guild without having to join it, assume that this has to do with being able to read the news of a game without actually joining the community
While the are definately scaling back, they look like they are still working on some form of discovery
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18150845/54962934-1390e700-4f67-11e9-83bf-892cb875288f.png
They are also working on making discord a stream platform, this will most likely be more of a competitor to steam.tv, instead of the more professional Twitch/Mixer
I'm not entire certain how it would work effectively.
You need to build your own following via whatever means. Outsiders will not be able to find your game at all. Confining communications within Discord seems counter-productive to exposure.
I dunno, I can respect them for trying something different, spend that potential 20% revenue cut on marketing instead of giving it to distributor. It feels like this is an investment to make Discord THE gaming community congregate platform than anything. The issue is that... this needs a client and can't be browsed with web... a turn-off point for many.
You could look at guilds without joining them for a long time. You go to the server discovery tab on the bottom of your server list and click any of them.
It's also documented at: https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/game-and-server-management/special-channels#special-channels-and-lurker-mode
ahh, so they did release it already then
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