Game Development

I mean, Valve has a vested interest in keeping game devs active on the Steam forums.

But also, can we stop fucking replacing support forums with Discord servers? Discord isn’t searchable by engines, so when I have an issue and search for “[game name] [issue]” I can’t easily find support topics from others who have had the same issue. All I get is a generic “jOiN ouR dIsCorD SerVer FoR sUppOrT” page instead.

Why do game devs and publishers who exclusively publish to steam use discord? Steam has searchable forums, chat rooms, screen-sharing, and voice chat too. There's no need for a third party client.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Has anyone actually read the article? It mentions Discord once, in passing.

It's about how iframes used to promote upcoming games/games by the same publisher aren't allowed anymore. This has negative implications towards indie devs because upcoming games in particular are less likely to be recommended already and in order to get into the "New and Upcoming" tab, a certain amount of wishlists is required.

Fewer wishlists => fewer recommendations => fewer wishlists

Discord is a piece of shit

Meh, I'm happy to have all external links in one place.

Once the community adapts that is where everyone will look as second nature if they want to check their website, social media, or whatever.

Good, i hate discord, steam has a waaaay more valuable forum system build in. Hope the devs begin to use it.

This feels like engagement bait

It won't be too long until users get used to the standardized locations for socials. And it cleans up a lot of spam

Good riddance. Discord sucks.

While the rules regarding external links will be somewhat manageable to work with, Chris rightfully points out that indie developers will have a harder time promoting upcoming games, since they won't be able to link them on the pages of their already published games. The latter tend to receive a lot more visibility on steam and were a valuable channel to gather wishlists. Welp :/

Can the next step be deprecating Discord entirely? Trash.