Discord knows what gamers want, and so far, it's managed to give it to them in a way other companies haven't. Go to Settings -> Game activity -> Toggle 'Display currently running game as a status message' on. But the way it's approached them, from looking to help people experience games they missed and offering a curated selection of games to making it easy to launch anything on your system, highlights exactly why so many people like it. If you dont have that option, then you are using the browser version of Discord, which has no way to know what programs or games you are running on your computer, so literally cannot offer game activity. Twitch did essentially the same thing in 2017 when it launched Twitch Games Commerce to make it easy to buy games you see on stream.ĭiscord is making a lot of changes with the introduction of the Discord Store.
Offering access to select titles could increase the number of people who sign up for Nitro, and selling individual games could also let Discord monetize the many people who can't or won't pay a monthly fee. It makes sense, then, for the company to sell games that interest those people. That's a lot of people who rely on the service to voice chat with friends playing the same game, socialize with people who have similar interests, and keep up with the gaming industry's latest gossip. Discord said in its announcement that it now has more than 150 million users.
