Discord making changes to store tab

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

In the newest blogpost Discord said they will "shift" the store tab to communities:

With game commerce shifting to communities, we've decided to replace the store tab with our Nitro games catalogue. For players, finding and buying games now happens through servers. Your library remains untouched by these changes.

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https://blog.discordapp.com/empowering-developers-with-community-and-commerce-68d9c0712662

 

[JeffGubb]

The store is not closing. They are just enabling developers to add it to the community.

Edit: OK. Yes. It's replacing store with the Nitro subscription thing.

 

[Deleted member 4518]

Why is the title saying it's closing when it's not...?

 

[erekiddo]

The store is not closing. They are just enabling developers to add it to the community.

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"we've decided to replace the store tab with our Nitro games catalogue"

I can't go into a typical store front anymore. Sounds like a form of closure to me.

If I have to hunt down official channels now to buy their respective games, that turns me off of buying games through Discord more than I already was.

Interesting premise though. Hope it works out for them.

 

[kami_sama]

After Twitch's store died, this was going to happen sooner or later.
The only stores that are alive are those that provide keys for other stores (GMG, humble), and the stores that are associated with developers, or are developers themselves (Steam, GOG, Uplay, Origin, Epic)

 

[Deleted member 48897]

The store is not closing. They are just enabling developers to add it to the community.

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Yeah this strikes me as them trying to turn their gamedev communities into something like factory outlets

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

The store is not closing. They are just enabling developers to add it to the community.

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The storefront is gone. I can still buy the games, but only via servers. That is why I wrote "kind of" in the title.

 

[Hamchan]

It's clearly not closing.

 

[Deleted member 2791]

Technically there's indeed no store anymore, so it closed.

 

[Nabs]

So no more storefront? So another store that won't even attempt to improve discovery. This makes discovery extra challenging.

The added channel features seem pretty neat at first glance. I hope they add MP features in the future.

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

I will ask a mod to change the title to "Storefront shifting to communites".

 

[Deleted member 21]

I only see the Nitro tab without the option to buy specific games, just Nitro

Soo... seems like OP is accurate?

Probably didn't expect EGS to enter the ring

 

[Chairmanchuck (另一个我)]

I only see the Nitro tab without the option to buy specific games, just Nitro

Soo... seems like OP is accurate?

Probably didn't expect EGS to enter the ring

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You can buy games via the servers. There is not big storefront anymore, so the store is technically not closed. Maybe you could change the title somehow?

 

[Delusibeta]

On the one hand, yeah the Discord Store as a "Steam competitor" is dead.

On the other hand, the replacement is a very interesting idea. Allowing official Discord servers to sell games directly does lean into Discord's pre-existing strengths. For example, I do know that No More Robots heavily relies on official Discord servers to develop a community to promote their games, and this should fit hand-in-glove with that.

With that said, a) this absolutely won't wash with devs that don't want to maintain such a community, b) this won't improve anyone's discoverability and c) this is basically the same idea as the Twitch store, and that failed miserably.

So yeah, we shall see. Its certainly something different (and hopefully also indicates the end of timed exclusives on the platform).

 

[Mad]

Discord had a store?

 

[Nabs]

Discord had a store?

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Yeah. They also paid for 90 days of exclusivity for certain games.

 

[InquisitorAles]

You know, this is actually a great idea to change their store model to community-based model, or whatever this called. This is like Steam community, but instead of forums there are chat channels, and I think this idea can work out pretty good. As long as they won't try to push exclusivity crap (I don't mind if some devs would decide to sell games only through Discord servers on their own, without those strict deals), I welcome this change.

 

[BernardoOne]

Not much of a surprise. Nobody uses the store and, in addition to that, half of the games on the platform are part of the Discord Nitro subscription. Can't even be bought separately.