I’ve already gone on about this at length, but Nintendo needs to think about the ‘charts/eShop interface encouraging 90% off discounts’ thing. There’s an MCV Develop interview with Inkle’s Joseph Humfrey & my bombastic No More Robots compadre Mike Rose about the state of the eShop for discoverability. IMO, the ‘mods on PC’ situation is starting to get messy, given there’s Steam Workshop, third-party solutions like Mod.io (which you can use on Steam!), and then Microsoft’s Game Store on PC requires specific moderation standards for mods… maybe a subject for another time! This is interesting, and not a feature I was expecting as an Epic-exclusive integration. This should hinder using VPNs to buy games cheaper.” Some rumblings of reduced sales because of this, but it’s a bit early to tell, and I imagine the revenues will equalize (if not units).Įpic noted that mod support is now in beta on the Epic Games Store, starting with Mechwarrior 5. In case you missed it, and SteamDB on Twitter didn’t, Valve “has recently made changing your store country more strict, which requires completing a purchase using a payment method from that country. I know directories can be unwieldy (and get outdated!), but I was impressed with his publisher list in here - there will almost certainly be indie pubs you don’t know. Liam Twose, who does the #pitchyagame tag on Twitter, also has a Global Games Industry directory he’s hosting for free on Itch (PDF) and Trello. (Hoping for ‘Hot New Games’ real-time charts, too, but a boy can dream…) I actually think the existing Xbox store interface was in the ‘good enough’ category for me, and so perhaps this one will take it to ‘great’. There’s going to be a new Microsoft Store on Xbox rolling out soon, with redesigned search functionality, a more prominent wishlist feature (interesting!), and a whole new, faster interface. So let’s get going on this one, shall we? In fact, I’m already filing things to post in NEXT week’s Game Discoverabilityland round-up. Which came first - the discount or the wishlist email?Īs always, there’s plenty of other things going on here. So that was what I personally took from the rundown of the top Discords! Feel free to read over it yourself and draw your own conclusions. And a Beat Saber modding Discord almost in the Top 10? Yup, that’s reinforcing its position as the breakout VR game - not surprising that Oculus bought the studio. If you were to tell me the Top 30 included Spellbreak (a game I clearly need to pay more attention to), Escape From Tarkov and GTFO, I admit I would have been a little surprised. There’s some very active game Discords I was surprised about. And impressed to see Deep Rock Galactic, TemTem & SatisFactory also in the Top 30. There’s also a few ‘big’ indies like Terraria and Risk Of Rain 2 punching above their weight. When looking at the most active servers out there, the top titles include Minecraft, Valorant (wow, Riot’s done a good job here!), Fortnite, Rainbow 6, Roblox, and so on. The top games are pretty much what I expected. But you also get Discord-partnered servers like Animal Crossing and the Reddit-linked r/LeagueOfLegends - which are not endorsed by the maker of the game, but still thrive anyhow. The ‘verified’ servers for Minecraft, Fortnite and others are run by staff or mods that are approved by the developers themselves. It’s a really great tool to attract and retain a community around your game and update them on your progress, no matter how many people hang out there.īut I thought some of the trends in the biggest/most active servers were super interesting, just to peruse what games are currently popular! Here’s what I particularly noticed:Ī lot of the top servers are ‘official’, but not all of them. I’ve talked a little bit about Discord in the past. He was kind enough to share with me his daily updated list of the most popular game-related Discord servers. This week, I was chatting (electronically) to Stephen Takowsky, who works on the massive Discord for Terraria at 505 Games (and also used to be a pro Civilization player with Team Liquid!)Īnyhow, Stephen does a bunch of neat work with Discord plug-ins and collaborations between large-scale Discords.
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