• towerful@programming.dev
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    2 hours ago

    Nah. They want to be an essential service for games.
    Verified users of appropriate age.
    Integrated game chat.
    Integrated game VoIP.
    All appropriate-for-age.

    Can’t develop your own moderation? Just pay discord.

    So many companies will pay massive sums to outsource chat/VoIP/age-verification/moderation to discord.
    And discord is already the “goto” gaming community provider.

    Oh, and shop stuff.
    Gift (buy) a friend a cool cosmetic through discord. Already has the community connections. Just needs the reason for games to tightly integrate it (moderation, chat, VoIP, age verification).

    It is absolutely a positioning move