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Discord launches low-cost membership and app store

2022-10-17T15:07:12.897Z


The social platform will also allow users to play or watch videos together. Discord is looking to grow its revenue. The American social platform will launch from October 20 the low-cost paid offer Nitro Basic. The latter, marketed at 2.99 euros per month, is three times cheaper than the classic Nitro subscription. Naturally, it includes far fewer services: personalized emojis and sending files up to 50 megabytes. Exit therefore the video streams in HD and the sharing of f


Discord is looking to grow its revenue.

The American social platform will launch from October 20 the low-cost paid offer Nitro Basic.

The latter, marketed at 2.99 euros per month, is three times cheaper than the classic Nitro subscription.

Naturally, it includes far fewer services: personalized emojis and sending files up to 50 megabytes.

Exit therefore the video streams in HD and the sharing of files of 100 MB, for which it will be necessary to subscribe to a subscription of 9.99 euros per month.

Subscription is the only source of revenue for Discord, which claims 150 million monthly users worldwide and is valued at $14.7 billion.

But until when ?

During a press conference, the platform announced the launch of an application store.

Developers will be able to sell paid applications there

,” which will be selected by Discord with a waiting list system, the company explained.

Will she take a commission on sales?

She did not comment on the subject, but the negative would be surprising…

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This store will allow administrators of Discord "

servers

" (kinds of private or public forums, where users can exchange in writing, orally or on video) to find a multitude of applications in one place, called “

bots

”.

These already existed, but you had to search for them manually on the Internet.

Multi-player games

Bots make it possible to set up automated tools for moderation, translation, but also a multitude of services such as general knowledge quizzes.

Some brands, like Netflix or StockX, also have bots on Discord to inform about new releases.

All bots present on the application store will have been verified beforehand by the platform.

Last novelty: the “

Activities

”.

They will allow members of the same Discord room to play together, and in audio, a narrow selection of board games.

On the program, chess, poker, a sort of Pictionary, a game of letters or a game of golf and football revisited.

Only Nitro subscribers at 9.99 euros per month will be able to start a game.

The “Sketch Heads” game can be played with several people on a Discord Discord voice channel

All of these games were created by Discord, but the company wants to attract external development studios.

Here again, a probable future source of income... The Activities will also make it possible to watch and comment on YouTube videos in group audio.

Source: lefigaro

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