🦊Discord must have galaxy sized balls to charge more for a PNG than it costs to get Stardew Valley
- She/Them/(T)Its
- floral.lgbt/
hi! im Razz/Floral! resident VR fur and e-gremlin~
raccoon/bat Hybrid (currently deer ΘΔ) 🦝🦇
i have a lot of hobbies, but i mainly draw stuff!
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🔞 i post SFW & NSFW [also see @razzle] 🔞
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in reply to @CyanSorcery's post:
i cannot understand paying money to put a bunch of shiny junk in front of my avatar
discord has been feature complete since launch...
(though i guess the last important addition was game sharing in 2019, before which iirc you could only share your entire screen without sound, or share your screen as a fake webcam which would put the sound through the voice codec and make it sound awful... right?)
...so theres literally nothing else they CAN add apart from bells and whistles................ theres nothing they can offer to attract new customers because everyone who wants to use it is already using it. but. The Value Must Grow. The Value MUST Grow.
🦊yea it sucks how tech companies just gotta grow grow grow instead of going "you know what, we got a good feature set, let's just make it better"
I won't deny they do add actually good new features from time to time. Built in soundboards are really nice, they'd be perfect if you could just use sounds from other servers without nitro. Forums and threads have their uses too. Just drowned out by useless nitro-only garbage these days...
🦨the chats we're active in have that soundboard shit turned off. we tried it exactly one time in our chat and turned it off when someone kept spamming 🗿
i just wish there was something so it would end up profitable and not just... die.
like that's what happens. if they can't make enough money to recoup the initial investment and then continue profiting, the company will go bankrupt - or more likely, price gouge & shrivel slowly in an attempt to retrieve any amount of that money poured in initially.
on the one hand it's horrible so much knowledge and community has ended up in one unprofitable platform, but on the other hand i feel like all they did was make a legit approachable chat software.
i just... like, this is an attempt to survive. every bad monetization attempt is an attempt to still have Discord exist in 10 years - to not loose all those communities to fragmentation after it dies.
I don't think we should fault them for trying.
It's funny, they got so shamed by this that when I looked they'd dropped the price to $12... Which is still unreasonably expensive for something purely cosmetic.
🦊It's $12 with the more expensive Discord Nitro, if you're not already paying them money or only have Nitro Basic, it's $16
Ah, that makes sense then! (It's still a ridiculous price for functionless flair)
It's like they decided after their fanbase yelled at them for dipping their toes into the NFT craze (twice!), they'd turn around and... charge real money for PNGs that have no real value aside from clout. I get that they have to make money somehow to stay running, but what was wrong with just being a normal chat client with the ability to share screens?
