WYP
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Will this be enough to attract developers to Discord?
Read more about Discord's plans to offer developers 90% of game sales revenue.
Read more about Discord's plans to offer developers 90% of game sales revenue.
Discord plans to offer 90:10 revenue shares, one-upping Epic Games
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I don't mind having multiple launchers as long as I can easily disable their automatic start-up launching stuff(I guess that's always easy with modern taskman but not always clean). Discord is already the standard communications tool for most gamers nowadays I think though(It's a lot nicer than Skype or TeamSpeak and the like that came before it imo) so I assume most of us already have it installed. I didn't have any idea it sold games too though.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
If we can continue to just keep this up soon we will be at 5% which is just great news for devs
AlienALX
Well-known member
Yeah it's kinda funny isn't it? it's like all of these market places are arguing over the profit and bartering among themselves lol.
We'll see what happens. Hopefully it may bring the prices of PC games back to 2008, where I could go to my store and buy Crysis at full RRP of £25, not the £50 console price (because of license fees etc).
That said I doubt it. Greed is rife, so once you ask £50 for a PC game there's no reason to stop there I suppose.
It does annoy me though. Especially when you can pay the same price for a console game with the hefty licensing fee and it work first time every time. I mean, even the other day my pal and I spent three hours troubleshooting FC5 because it thought he was running cheat software. Turns out to be the Asus RGB software.
But yeah, none of that BS on a console.
ImprovizoR
Well-known member
It looks like they want to sow discord in the digital store market.
I'll show myself out.
I'll show myself out.
Tripp
too many shrooms
Made me chuckle dude
Dicehunter
Resident Newb
This will create competition, Better for everybody, Apart from Steam but then again Steam need a good firm kick to the blue berries, They've been stagnant for too long.
MacLeod
New member
I tend to agree. I'm not too keen on having to open up accounts with 10 different retailers just to buy the games I want.
I went to Steam to buy Black Out but passed when I found I had to buy it on Battlenet.
Is it the end of the world, nah but it is a pain to have to keep up with a bunch of different launchers/stores/accounts/passwords like that and lately there hasn't been a lot of games I really want to buy so any little extra effort I have to go thru will usually be enough for me to say to hell with it. I've got plenty of great older games in my library I can play.
AlienALX
Well-known member
FTFY. TBH? I often forget what games I have and where they are. Kinda like all the passwords I have had forced on me (ones using things I don't commonly use) that I keep forgetting and have to f**k around rescuing. It's really getting on my tits.
Like an example, about 6 weeks ago I bought a really cheap BF1 key. It was like £4. I activated it, then closed Origin reinstalled my PC and forgot I even had it.
It's just getting silly.
To be fair, you can usually add games from different launchers to Steam or vice versa(Even stuff like UWP games that you can't create shortcuts for can be added with third party software, useful for using Steam Controllers in Forza and that, or just create traditional shortcuts for the games and use a folder or desktop or something. Presumably there are also unified third party launcher-launchers about?
Just disable the "load when windows starts" for each launcher, add a shortcut to your desktop or game .exe folder and then quit the moaning! 
If anything Steam is the worst one of all of them. It is the only one that includes game pop ups opening in a new window. To me this annoying intrusive BS is why I welcome other launchers.
All others advertise games on their landing page. Bring it on discord!
Also considering almost everyone who chats online has Discord installed, I don't get why its a problem making this into a game launcher. I believe they already have that possibility to launch external games via their software isnt it?
If anything Steam is the worst one of all of them. It is the only one that includes game pop ups opening in a new window. To me this annoying intrusive BS is why I welcome other launchers.
All others advertise games on their landing page. Bring it on discord!
Also considering almost everyone who chats online has Discord installed, I don't get why its a problem making this into a game launcher. I believe they already have that possibility to launch external games via their software isnt it?
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