Serious question, are there any guilds left that don’t shove Discord in your face constantly? Back in the day we scheduled raids via in-game calendar and never had any issues. I’m so sick of everything being redirected to that bloated third party app. It’s almost like you can’t play wow these days if you’re not super active on Discord…
Literally anything and everything is redirected to Discord. I wanna socialize IN GAME. Not interested in the messy @$s app. I really don’t understand the obsession with it. I use disc to voice chat on raids and that’s it. There is no other purpose to the app for me.
30 Likes
We don’t schedule with discord, we use it as a replacement for a guild website and forum, its free, it has everything we need for an active guild.
If someone needs to post out for raid, it’s easy to see.
If we need to post raid time changes or strats, easy to to see.
Voice quality is good.
And it allows people to social whenever they want, not just in game.
But to each their own, I’m sure some guilds out there don’t use it.
22 Likes
Guild Master here. Discord is vastly superior to the in-game thing because you don’t have to be in-game to use it. Goes for both the calendar, and also for chatting with guildmates.
36 Likes
And most people who would raid already have discord, these days.
5 Likes
It was continuous, more and more communities using discord as time went on. It’s far superior to guild chat for communicating with your friends, you can chat with people when you’re offline and when your friend quits WoW, they don’t stop existing.
5 Likes
Back in the day everyone used Teamspeak then Vent. Discord is just TS and Vent with more options.
35 Likes
Because it’s a legible community site with easy channel and PM access with acceptable voice and stream capability all rolled into one.
It’s a Guild/Community Forum, voice chat, IRC all rolled into one that is easy to make an account for, access and use.
It’s also entirely out of Blizzard’s control. Which means you don’t have to login to WoW to use it, don’t have to wait for maintenance to be over to talk to your friends, don’t have to worry about patch day breaking it, nor do you have to worry about Blizzard moderating it or turning your avatars into fruit bowls.
11 Likes
Also… people tend to use it more.
“Did you read the strat on the guild forum?” “No, i never go there”…
4 Likes
also we do not need to keep the passwords like we did with vent
1 Like
Did you never use Vent, Teamspeak, Mumble, Skype or anything else back in the day? Like others have said, it’s easier to use discord to post raid times, schedules, signups and such. It’s not just in WoW that discord is ingrained in, pretty much most of the games you play online with people use discord too. You can socialize in game without discord, but most guilds use discord for content, be it m+, raiding, or pvp. You can join LFR groups and not use discord if you want. It’s easier to keep everyone on the same page in discord than it is with the in game options.
4 Likes
It’s just so much better and easier than any of the alternatives.
That was always allowed.
7 Likes
All that was said by Grymauch in general, but this in particular can’t be stressed enough, it not only has apps for pretty much anything (iOS, Android, Windows, Mac) but it can be used by literally anything that can be access a website (Smart TV’s, consoles, etc…) can use it too.
There isn’t anything that can be said to be ‘bloated’ on your computer or other device, when it can be used (both for just voice, or also using any of the other things) entirely by going to a website and not installing a single thing.
1 Like
Discord became the go to app when it became better than anything else out there… Period… #EndThread
9 Likes
You very much so both can and still do that
But when folks aren’t in-game folks do it over discord
Back in the day instant messaging was rare, and even more so when you also had a game associated with it - Facebook grew to the levels it did partially because it did this exact thing
No one uses Facebook for ‘games’ anymore, folks use it to organize work between colleagues, have their data mined and sold, and to share occasionally funny stories between people
And much like how Facebook developed into becoming the same thing as these more evolved versions of Teamspeak, Ventrilo, and Mumble that became Discord … WoW does the same thing
With less data sold for advertisement companies, but the point still remains
You play WoW to play the game, but you can still be social in it
But folks will accompany that with Discord and other apps like that, and yes I say apps because its important for it to be available across platforms including phones
Maybe you never used Facebook in your life, and instead used WoW and missed these last 10-ish years or so (I’m not saying this to attack you or to belittle you, but more so to point out that this is neither new or a ‘thing’, but here to stay until next development) but…
Folks use WoW to be social, but to socialize folks use Discord because it isn’t dependent on one thing alone, and can be combined with literally any interest you could have to socialize with people outside of one particular group of people
3 Likes
Its ubiquity is resultant it being better than previous tools; teamspeak, curse, skype, et cetera. Now that it’s known to be a popular tool more people use it, the more people use it the more popular it becomes, the more popular it becomes the more people use it, and so on and so forth until something better comes along, enough contrarians arise in succeeding generations to herald its decline in popularity, or ruin comes to its controlling company.
This all assuming it will ever cycle out rather than be propped up and kept alive while the gilded powers that be seek to collar and control it.
Discord advertised itself as the gamer’s app. It functions for gamers. Any gaming community / place uses discord in some form or another. And that’s okay.
It’s alright you don’t like it but plenty of people do. You can either try to become more comfortable with it or denounce it and socialize how you see fit.
6 Likes
Is this a serious post, OP? Discord is vastly superior to in-game chat.
Chat whether you are online or offline
Direct Messages whether on wow or not
Keep up with friends after they or you quit
VASTLY superior voice quality
Compartmentalized to your needs
Even if Blizzard made their in-game chat models into an app like Discord it wouldn’t be used. It’s too niche and way too specific. You can hate it all you want but it’s not going anywhere. In fact, it’s only expanding in influence. It’s being integrated into PlayStation and XBOX.
2 Likes
I agree that it’s kind of annoying, but it’s not really new for guilds to use 3rd party stuff. Remember when guilds all had a thing on the guild portal site? Discord is just the most current iteration of that.
1 Like
It’s not just wow, it’s become it’s own beast.
Most multiplayer games will have Discords.
It’s just so much better for community building… Not to mention it’s actually good for comms.
3 Likes
Lets whine and rage about non issues!
2 Likes