Why Did Discord’s Game Library Fail?
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- Discord used to have their own game store. Like Steam or the Epic Games Store, Discord would happily sell you whatever game they could get their hands on. But, in the early days of Xbox gamepass, Discord made their own and called it "nitro games". Learn more about Discord's discontinued games store and library by using your eyes and ears and perhaps brain, idk.
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Old Store Video
• Discord Store Is LIVE ...
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Discord Server
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00:00 - Shop till you drop
02:24 - Happy Gamers
03:51 - Happy Devs
05:45 - Uh oh stinky
08:45 - Revive me I have raygun - Zábava
who else hbeard of it like once and never again
hbeard
Me
Exactly me
Bro you edited it but didn't fix the typo?
@@Fqtl sshut up!
Overall great video I miss the feature!
Also, I think you meant to say necromancy instead of necrophilia. They are drastically different terms
I think he knew that. lol
lmao
can you give more examples to that? i totally didnt understand that
One Revive the dead, other is breeding a corpes
@@yootz necromancy is bringing back the dead
Necrophillia is fucking dead corpses
i think they removed this feature because people could just crack the games themselves instead of buying them from Discord.
AND it might have not gotten them enough profit to continue (from other companies).
AND nobody used this shop.
Remember, cracking games is russian roulette
if these cracked games has disguised ransomware or not
cracking android paid games had no risk with precausion
cracking pc games had risk to recieve malwares
@@henballzgameplay7619 WHO SAID ITS UNCRACKABLE READ MOTERFUCKER. my point is people do it the same with other stores so piracy wasnt what killed discord's store
@@Mizuryryn i pirated all my life its mostly fine
@@yukiqt if its ransomware (you'll never get one), basically it functions like "draw other apps" covers everywhere and even jams other buttons, something with draw other apps killer would save you
thats it
Pre-watch comment
I thought the in-house game store was a neat little feature for little games like Super Meat Boy or Bridge Constructor. (Hell even to just have it on another platform. Like, I bought INSIDE on there because I already had it on steam and wanted to support the devs further)
It's a shame discord didn't partner with those devs to distribute indie stuff.
Little games to hop onto when bored (like how discord has activities for voice calls now) fit discord perfectly, and the indie devs could get around steam's massive cut of sales.
Glad he mentioned Steam's revenue split. Steam's cut of sales is pretty crazy.
it's a safety net tho, everyone that tries to go under it(discord, epic games, so on) ends up losing a lot of money while steam is so high up they could even build their on console(best part is steam deck is arch based)
they could also implement some kind of donation to developer channel to support sustainable gaming development without predatory microtransactions
Even if the Game Store is gone, i'd like for the Game Library to come back in some way
for real, that seems like the best thing ever
i'm sad there isn't a way to track all of your games playtime in 1 place even if steam tries to but fails (ex minecraft launcher)
@@TriflingToad wtf do you care about that kind of stuff lmao
@@TriflingToad GOG goes a long way I think, it has an auto-import for almost anything that has to do with other launchers including social features.
@@bobhill9845 yeah, idk I just like to count how many hours ive wasted online haha
gog galaxy. check it
The weird thing about the Discord Game Store, is that even if you received a refund for the Discord Developer License, your app still exists on discord, and all the functionality, such as uploading your game files (including creating branches and SKUs), modifying the store page, and things like that, all still exist, even if you've never actually published your game on the Discord Store.
I really liked the discord game store, because I could just give people in my server a specific role and they'd get free access to the game I was developing, and you still somewhat can do that (with a somewhat added security risk).
Fun fact : i still can access the download for king of the hat because i got it from the hypesquad event and now i just have it forever
Very cool game btw, excited for the stable release
What is hypesquad events. I'm in the brave thing idk what it is tho
@@McpeBeanAddict it's a past thing when there was still the discord game shop, I think it only happened once ? And they basically gave you the game for free and there were tournaments with it
@Golem642 ow, that's actually painful. Gonna check the game out still but it still hurts 🥲. Thank you for answering
This feature being gone really hurts me as a programmer, as I was working on a multiplayer mod for a game using Discord's SDK as it made the process soo much better. A shame that they're taking it out now.
You're still able to use the sdk, there's plenty of games still that use the sdk for multiplayer etc. just no store
@@lukemacinnes5124 "The GameSDK's Achievements, Applications, Voice, Images, Lobbies, Networking, Storage, and Store (purchases and discounts) features have been deprecated, and will be decommissioned on May 2, 2023.", from the discord sdk docs :(
@@LazyDuchess what are u using now
@@someonewhospams0w0inchat16 I'm thinking of moving to peer to peer, I don't think security is that much of an issue as this is more of a friends only kind of game.
I can't believe you said burial at sea sucks. the entire game sucks and burial at sea is the one good thing about it.
I'm heartbroken that you feel this way.
:(
Bros a nerd LOOL
Was going through your channel to watch a video while eating and i guess i got lucky with your new upload
Played only like realm royale on discord's store and i had dejavu of like "wait isn't discord missing something" for the longest time.
ILY ntts you're a real bro!
i remember playing mafia game for free because i had gifted nitro honestly discord was more generous and less greedy back then even if they had failure ideas they still offered good stuff for free
I remember this, it was amazing and I really hope they bring it back
Love you man keep up the good work
I miss this. I never would have heard of the metro series without discord. Now it's one of my favorite game series. Thank you old discord for introducing me to something incredible. I now own every entry in the series on steam / epic
we all know the reason the library failed is because no one knew it existed
i did but knew nothing about it
@@Childneglecter 💀
@@CompGuyo ????
@@Childneglecter yes
@@CompGuyo dawg you high?
I miss it. I used to use it to load all my games because it was so easy. But now even though the library is still there, I can't use it as the universal library anymore :(
damn this was like an xbox vs discord situation 💀💀💀
I remember claiming all the free games and whenever I toggle the library feature on in my discord settings I can see all 6 of them... that I never once played after claiming them years ago lol. Discord might've been right about people not using this feature and was right to cut it
Also, Discord in general just had really poor performance after the store.
I would call daily back in 2017, and I distinctly remember how after the store launched, my ping would be like way up there. It used to be like a second delay in call, but it was giting 5-7 seconds. Thankfully the past years its been back to normal at least
Thanks for the interesting video. I don't get that function (in past), but I'm remember videos on CZcams, I think.
I'm glad to know that our game was listed in the free games list :)
Bro I know you had no idea what the game was and ik almost no one does but as an avid Zenzizenzic fan, the fact that it stayed on screen for more than a millisecond made me incredibly happy-
It's a super fun bullet hell game with a BANGER soundtrack check it out ;)
Having the library tell you where all your games are seems incredibly useful and something I've wanted for a long time... I hope there's an alternative somewhere.
@@funnyannita I think upon Googling after writing that, GoG offers this too, which since I've already got some games on that platform, it'll make sense
But cheers!!
If they brought this back and did it right, it would be amazing. Especially since we are used to the $10 a month now
I also find it funny how I was talking about this game with an SCPSL staff member a day prior to you posting this
As someone who saw this and then the success of Xbox Game Pass, I can say with confidence that it's the lack of marketing plus a lack of outreach to license decent series like Yakuza and whatnot. Typically people use these services for long series binges as they can usually only afford them on bundle sales otherwise. Between the lack of longer series and next to no marketing, Discord Gaming shot itself in the foot.
randomly seeing my game (It's Hard Being A Dog) at 3:40 is wild lmaooo, truly a fan favourite
there was this one kickstarter game Last Year that was switched there last minute for exclusivity bucks without telling their backers and when the discord store failed like 3 weeks after they got shit on instantly when they tried to crawl back to steam after screwing over their backers
3:35
Those games were already free 💀
You could go to their respective platforms and get them free there too, there's nothing that's new there
I presume he's being sarcastic that the "free" games are just free-to-play games that have existed elsewhere, at least Warframe which he claims to know of.
I loved the concept of store but I mostly claimed the games and only played like 3 of them. It is still available for me as the games are linked to my account
I remember downloading a game from the library, and I couldn't delete it for some reason, since that I never used that library thing again
yeah ive just had this vivid memory of the game store when i joined discord but when when it disappeared every now and then i kept thinking "was this even real"
I think they should bring back the shared library. Would still be a great feature.
I remember having a game and accounts code gen server with actual codes with about 1000, exactly when it hit 1k it got hacked :/
I was getting reeeeeeeeal worried you werent going to address the tab folder titled "necrophilia" phew
I honestly thought the cropped off images of bioshock were an actual game series called "Hock"
I wasn't here when the store was up, cool vid btw no text
The only thing I miss about this was playing Mafia 1, fun while it was there.
bro should make it so that anyone with the early supporter badge can still play these games and if they own a server they can use a boost on their server to let others play the game in their server
I remember getting Warframe on the discord game thing... honestly didn't minded the gore, but my dad did since I was playing a bit before 13 (which makes sense especially when the game is rated M for its gore and other stuff)... but other then Warframe, there wasn't much memory of it, and also it kinda sucked when trying to join people via cross-platform (aka console)
The only time I ever even opened the Discord Game Store was in order to claim packs of free goodies for Warframe, which I played through Steam. Besides that, I only had memory of what games I *could* play through the store, versus what games I already owned or had access to through Family Share, before deeming Nitro+ and it's store related perks unneeded. Wasn't until Discord utilities (such as longer message length, even higher upload cap, profile customization etc) that the $10 a month actually seemed like a worthwhile cost.
I miss having the bioshock infinite 1 and 2 series I had for free off there
I love the fact that i still have a "library" tab to download a couple of games :D
Great video as always :)
give it enough time this sounds like it could be great
Only one kiss this video? Man, last video and the one before spoiled us.
I remember getting it for a few months and I think it was the only time I had/wanted Nitro
hahaha, i remember when I first came accross warframe on the discord store and everyone was confused that I have installed it via discord. Now I am missing all the achievements on steam lol
It is sad it failed. Had a pretty huge library of games for damn cheap, plus I got lucky with some free nitros.
Nooo that was a good thing man i hope it gets come back
oh boy, i still have warframe on my discord account from back when this was a thing
i miss this
I wish discord would do something like galaxy 2.0. Just a universal game launcher
the amount of star wars games in the discord store was unreal
Great video
I saw it pop up, went to settings and disabled the tab and never thought of it ever again.
I have one question. how did you make folders on your Browser?
It's called Tab Groups, just right click on a tab and select "Add tab to a new group" or something similar. Then drag tab in and out to manage them.
I wish we still had Nitro, bring back the old LFG features, owned servers on profiles (make it toggleable this time), sound packs, etc. At that point I think Nitro could genuinely be a good deal at $9.99/month. I mean, I still disagree with any and all subscriptions but the entire reason Nitro was ever good outside of the Nitro Classic when we still had that was the store. Never thought the Server Boosts were that great as when you're big enough to gain all the server boosts, especially how much it used to take to get to level 3, you were probably already partnered and had access to all the Nitro server features along with VIP voice servers.
I didn't even notice it was removed
I didn’t even know this was a thing
I remember having a game in this library
I miss it
I use to try every game on there
It was fun
I remember this, never used it though
In concept, this felt like a pretty decent reason to buy Nitro, alongside the other bells and whistles. Without it, all it boils down to now is "haha funny emoji from this server can be posted in different server."
king of the hat was cracked
bro, i remember this and i thought it was like a year ago or two
great vid :)
i still have heroes and generals WWII in my discord library
3:49 zombsroyale is there. I remember downloading zombs on discord
Yeah good game
OOHHHH I do remember installing Warframe on discord so I could get some free items, I think they even gave some free platinum (the game's premium currency)...
Me waiting for SunnyV to make 'NoTextToSpeech's downfall' or 'The Downfall Of NoTextToSpeech'
top tier video
problem is if you get terminated off discord then there goes your game and since discords is a chat platform and not a dedicated game site so you can get terminated for more things
That's basically the same as any other game platform, you lose your account that's it
@@kumoko3728 yea but you have a higher chance of loosing your account in discord cos it's a chat platform as well so you could get banned for something you say on discord
I still have a library cus of when I had nitro & can still play them.
8:59 how did u get that little star on the left side of the screen
This is basically Steam but more focused on a chatting app and social media than games
they really shouldve kept this and put more resources into it wouldve made nitro have an actual reason to be bought besides animated icon
I feel like there was probably too much competition.
the discord games library folder is still on my hard drive, despite the service being gone and me not having any games on it. it's unremovable for some reason.
3:47 just me playing warframe at the moments and dont know how random that came
It's funny how I still have some games in my discord LIbrary
oh so this wasn't some fever dream i had
I still have the library tab (on browser) and it says can only play this game on desktop. it seems like the games were made by discord but idk.
i feel like a library in discord would be cool
I have King of the Hat in my Discord library and can still play it
I used to have a game in my Library, but I think the developer deleted it or something, sadly
Man I forgot this was a thing
oh i remember it, i got a game (i think it was minion master)
never played it, i don't think i've even payed anything
i was wondering where this had gone.
discord games is actually how i got myself to play ftl
I wish that still existed
I still have the game library. I cant remember how but i got a bunch of games for free incluing paladin. Its still in my library but it says only playable on desktop (i use browser)
bruh everyone just forgot this existed
i used to use discord to launch my games lol crazy times
I got the libary feature unlocked since 2021 i think and i wish the universial libary feature would come back
I want them to bring it back, if it was still I thing i'd probably use it.
they also deprecated the game invite feature meaning entanglement for boneworks will fail! Thanks Discord.
which browser do you use
I played a lot of ZombsRoyale back then
i feel like the store was just shovelware but the library was kinda cool