Why has Discord become such a common requirement to join a guild?

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You dont need another way to contact me…

GMs already have various ways with which they can inform their members of events or any salient information.

Requiring Discord is pretty egotistical in my honest opinion. “I am their officer, I should be able to talk to them even if they’re doing something 100% unrelated to WoW or the guild.”

Just make a GMotD, man…

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It provides an easy way to connect with folks outside of the game, because not everyone’s going to be playing it 24/7 on the same character. Plus it’s pretty stable and keeps track of all messages even between desktop and mobile.

I’m guessing you’ve had a bad experience with a nosy officer trying to get your attention every day for stupid reasons. If so, that’s a rather strange way to denounce discord. If not, then my point still stands.

Also, GMotD only works when you login and check the chatbox, or look at the guild info page. If you’re not ingame, then you’re ignorant of what happens with the guild.

If anything, your complaint just reads as you afraid of adapting to guilds changing to suit their communities best.

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If a guild requires Discord as a mandatory task, then yeah it’s unappealing but if it’s just sort of used as a casual hang out, then that’s not too much of a problem.

To be honest? I really prefer this strange new world of one communication service being universally used as opposed to having to download Mumble, Teamspeak, and Skype.

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I remember when those were a thing.
It felt so clunky and awkward to use.

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No bad experiences.

But yeah if someone is not on a character that is in your guild, then they have no obligation to do…anything pertaining to the guild, which includes being contacted by them.

I don’t have a problem with guilds having Discord, but REQUIRING it is selfish and incorrect.

And if you’re going to debate, don’t bring personal attacks into the discussion.

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I get your point but thats just how it is. You can server mute and set your status to always appear offline though.

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It’s really amazing how archaic they feel, they really are a time capsule into how the internet used to be. There’s a part of me that really, really hopes hardcore Classic players will make using Teamspeak mandatory for that authentic experience.

That’s completely and totally valid but as Arm mentioned, Discord allows users to appear offline and mute / block certain people, so that would be a ‘them’ issue and not a ‘you’ issue.

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Yeah but the fact that I’d have to do that in the first place is wrong.

I am firm in my belief that if I’m offline, you being able to communicate with me is my choice, not a demand.

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Well, you don’t HAVE to do anything. Just like a guild doesn’t HAVE to invite someone who refuses to use Discord. :slight_smile:

Freedom, baby! :eagle: :us:

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Irrelevant to the conversation but ok

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Discord is a common because it is good.

Just don’t download discord and see what they do.

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I disagree with the practice but that doesn’t mean im going to go out of my way to break a rule lol

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Protest kind of seems like the next logical step here.

Unless you’re going to go to the guild council and present your case as to why discord shouldn’t be required and that you have personal freedoms that shant be infringed upon.

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Discord is the new guild website. There were people who considered those dealbreakers, too.

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I agree to a point, but a guild website isnt nearly as widely used as Discord. I could be playing a different game with friends using Discord but still be pestered by a guild officer. I wouldnt use a guild website for the same purpose so it wouldnt lead to as much annoyance

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I’m fine with discords in general, but I keep running into a very specific problem. I’ll join an rp guild in game. They’ll have a super active discord, but no one will ever actually be online playing for more than a few minutes at a time unless they’re actively recruiting. That’s fine, but people get really weird when you want to leave the guild due to inactivity when there’s so much going on outside of the game. Not a huge deal, but I seem to be prone to joining these.

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If you don’t wanna download Discord, don’t download Discord.

Then you don’t have to worry about guilds that require Discord.

Guild that requires Discord: Hey, wanna join our guild?
You: No, thank you.

Also, it’s not like guilds are gonna hit you up directly 24/7. Shoot, you can make yourself appear offline or appear as away or even busy when you don’t wanna be contacted.

It’s a rad communication tool that can be used to communicate with your people. You can make new friends. You can discover fine dime honies. You can talk to people.

In short, Discord is a communication tool that is used for communication. Sounds like you had a bad experience or are just plain a(nti)social and don’t want to communicate.

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Dealbreaker.

But in seriousness:

This is just a pet peeve but people mix these up way too much. Asocial is staying inside and turning off your phone because you don’t want to talk to people. Antisocial is stabbing the stranger at the bus stop because you don’t want to talk to people.

Discord is an awesome tool, I use it a lot. But I also have to side-eye any guild which requires it, simply because that feels to me like making demands on my time beyond the game, which is generally where I wanna draw the line in terms of my interaction with Warcraft guilds.

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Yes, I will admit that I was wrong. And I apologize.

E: but to be fair, we don’t know OP. MAYBE they have gone the extra mile. How about a(nti)social?

E2: I’ve agreed to a(nti)social.

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Discords can be ok or obnoxious.

Some of them are nicely organized with channels that you can reference for gaming information, RP rules, backstory, etc.

And then there are the other ones that do things like:

  • Consists of one disgusting chat channel that posts NSFW crap all the time. Thanks, but I can’t open your Discord at work if it’s got…you know…all over the channel.
  • Everyone has a weird Discord name that doesn’t match their character name and you have zero idea who’s talking if you join as a new member.
  • Constant @everyone pings that don’t really need to ping anyone at all.
  • New channels constantly being added or deleted so you get spam for channels that you don’t have turned off, or you can’t find something you know was there once.

I have left guilds/Discords over every one of these things.

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