Discord Software Recent News!

The making of voice and text communication software called Discord, who allows gamers to talk with each other while playing on pc’s and smart phones, was recently valued at 2.5 billion. Discord software recent news. Shows that the software company, expands its footprint into sales and subscriptions, in the super fast growing game industry!. As they keep raising money, discord counts for approximately 200 million users. More than quadruple what they had a year ago.

Rampant Growth

The explosion in popularity of free online multiplayer video game such as “league of legends” and fortnite, “battle Royale” which have fueled the raise of other gaming services such as amazon.com inc’s streaming video game platform twitch, has made discord a hot commodity for gaming. CEO Jason Citron stated in an interview that the growth will continue, as it plans to build out its fledging PC games download store. Furthermore, Mr. Criton stated that a new $9.99 monthly subscription service is coming up, and, looks pretty lucrative for the company, accounting the 200 million users, which he assure more than half may be joining the monthly subscription.

Competition

Discord is going up against massive entrenched rivals such as valve corp.’s  Steam and electronics Art’s inc. As well as popular retailers new comers including epic games Inc; the company behind the smash hit “Fortnite”. Notwithstanding the competition hurdles, is well known that the PC game downloads and other digital sales are projected a total of $32 billion this year, up 2.9% from last year. Before launching both the store and gaming service in October, discord only source of revenue was nitro, a $4.99 monthly service that gives users access to special emojis and other digital perks to use while chatting.

The dark side of discord

Since the platform allows users to contact one another via text, voice and video call on desktop and mobile applications. It’s marked as an alternative to skype or team speak, and avid gamers have the option, to purchase higher quality of video, larger downloads as well. Although the platform community guidelines state that sharing images of gore, posting graphic images, for sadistic pleasure, glorification or celebration of violence and sharing content related to minors that is sexually suggested or violent isn’t tolerated. The platform has a NSFW FEATURE  where users are encourage to attached to their servers for content that the website says “may be ok for you, might be unsuitable for others”. This puts a content warning over these channels that requires users to confirm they are adults by answering the question: ” are you over the age of 18 and willing to see adult content?”, with either nope or continue.

As a result channels containing pornography, violence and political extremism, are easy to access.

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