Discord is looking to increase its revenue. The American social platform will launch the cheap paid offer Nitro Basic from October 20. The latter, sold for €2.99 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. Therefore, opt out of HD video streaming and 100MB file sharing that requires a monthly subscription of €9.99.
Subscriptions are the only source of revenue for Discord, which has 150 million monthly users worldwide and is valued at $14.7 billion. But until when? During the press conference, the platform announced the launch of the app store. “There, developers will be able to sell paid applications.“, which will be selected by Discord using the queue system, the company explained. Will he take a commission on the sale? He didn’t comment on the topic, but the negative would be surprising…
This store will allow administrators to “serversDiscord (types of private or public forums where users can exchange written, verbal or video messages) to find many applications in one place called “bots“. These already existed, but you had to manually search for them on the Internet.
Multiplayer games
Bots enable automated tools for moderation, translation, as well as many services such as general knowledge quizzes. Some brands like Netflix or StockX also have bots on Discord to announce new releases. All bots in the app store will be pre-screened by the platform.
The latest newsActivity:“. They will allow members of the same Discord room to play together and a narrow selection of board games for audio. The program again featured chess, poker, a form of Pictionary, a letter game or golf, and football. Only Nitro subscribers for €9.99 per month will be able to start a game.
All these games are created by Discord, but the company wants to involve external development studios. Here again a potential future source of income… The activity will also allow you to watch and comment on YouTube videos with group audio.
Source: Le Figaro
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