Only one user will need a standard Nitro plan to invite their friends to play these games. Image: Discordįor example, Discord will now offer a Watch Together app for watching YouTube together with your friends, a poker app for organizing group card games, and chess. Discord is calling its new gaming initiative Activities, and these will start with a series of nine minigames that work well within the context of Discord's voice chat capabilities.ĭiscord's new Activities tab will let users play minigames with one another inside of the app, starting with more obvious use cases like poker and chess. The hope that more players will come to think of Discord as a place to do stuff with friends instead of just chat. The Basic offering allows for largely cosmetic upgrades, including animated emoji and special profile badges.īut to lure customers who might be considering a full Nitro subscription, Discord is now planning to sweeten the deal with the launch of a key new feature: in-app gaming. 20, Discord will start offering a new, $2.99 per month plan called Nitro Basic designed to make the service much more attractive to the scores of users who so far pay nothing to use Discord. (Nitro Classic, a cheaper $4.99 option, offers fewer perks Discord says customers on Classic can keep the plan but it will no longer be allowing new sign ups.)īeginning Oct. To make money, Discord has begun to rely on its Nitro subscription platform, which costs $10 a month or $100 a year and offers basic feature upgrades like more-customizable profiles and server upgrades like higher-quality uploads. But where Discord thrives is less in work contexts and more for seamless voice communication and in allowing large communities to organize around their interests, with a large focus on gaming. Discord announced a suite of new features and an additional, cheaper subscription tier to its Nitro service on Monday designed to position its chat platform as not just a place to talk with your friends while you play video games, but also a place to play those games with friends and find new software.ĭiscord, started in 2015, has grown to more than 150 million monthly active users predominantly by being a free-to-use multiplatform chat application not unlike Slack.
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