Thread: Well, crap
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March 25th, 2021, 22:01 #11
I suspect that if Microsoft does purchase it, one of the changes will be that some premium services (as they exist right now) might be offered to XBL subscribers. I think it makes sense, they probably want the streaming capabilities for games, so giving premium features to XBL subscribers would give them a boost in that space, probably get it integrated into the consoles as well at some point.
The other option I can think of is to give O365 users access to some premium features as well, but that might be at cross purposes with Teams.
Either way, I hope they leave the free tier alone, if they upset that apple-cart, people will find a different platform.
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March 26th, 2021, 01:08 #12
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March 26th, 2021, 15:21 #13
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March 26th, 2021, 18:23 #14
It may be a value from the perspective of "one of the big tech giants is going to own it eventually, might as well be us so nobody else gets it".
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April 14th, 2021, 00:36 #15
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April 14th, 2021, 21:15 #16
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It's a good way to buy an entire community/customer base. They got developers with GitHub. They got a huge medical customer base with Dragon Nuance, and now they can buy a pre-packaged gaming community that is already engaged and can be plugged into their Xbox community. If they can get it to work on their own Azure platform, like they did with Minecraft, that would be a PR win too. MS isn't the MS of the 90's anymore, and it's nothing like Google, which seems to shut down a messaging app every other week. I loathe subscriptions, but aside from Spotify and Netflix, I'm pretty happy to use it every day for the gaming group I'm in. Although I hope they do better than they did with Skype.
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May 4th, 2021, 18:40 #17
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Ill be honest i really like discord for my games. I like the voice i like the different text channels i can make specific to a campaign...like a rules channel a info channel etc. I'm in IT been supporting and working with MS products in both the home consumer and enterprise markets for almost 25 years. As long as they wouldnt charge too much...id be willing to pay for what i get now if ms gets discord and improves a few things. I wouldnt pay 50 bucks a month or anything crazy like that though...
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May 4th, 2021, 18:56 #18
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Discord ended talks with Microsoft for them to purchase them at this time.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/discord...ft-11618938806
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May 21st, 2021, 02:16 #19
They want to drink up that Milkshake too and grab the userbase. They got Skype, Phasing out Skype for Business for MS Teams, in ten years Discord Enterprise ed. For their office 365 platform.
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May 21st, 2021, 03:01 #20
As others have said - this would most likely be a way to tie in closer with the xbox/pcgamer communities rather than corporate clients.
Teams has wildly different functionality from Discord - there is no chance of Discord replacing Teams in the business environment.
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