The new “Games” dashboard brings in a view where you can view news from upcoming games as well as the games your friends are playing. This is incredible news since this would be something you would have to go on Reddit to find out. This would also be a good spot to have a promoted game, another revenue option for Discord.

Although most of these links go to the official dev blogs on Steam or other client services, it could make a really good news aggregator such as IGN, PC Gamer or other news outlets. That’s not the most impressive part though.

Discord is taking on Steam and other Launcher Clients.

The gaming ecosystem is a little flawed. AAA game developers are not letting Steam hold a monopoly in the PC gaming market so they are creating their own. Epic Games, Blizzard and Valve own all of the popular options that are holding gamer’s hostage. Add your friend on Steam, Battle.net and Epic Games. It’s annoying and isn’t a real representation of your friends list.

Discord makes this easy with the integrations from older client’s to theirs. With the addition of the game launcher, it now keeps user’s off of the Epic Games, Blizzard or Steam client’s and lets them do the communication on their own. The addition of the Rich Presence has also made this a spectacular move on their behalf.

Final Notes

Discord’s plan from the beginning (and even now) was to appeal to gamers and give them what they wanted.

It first started with Skype and TeamSpeak. Gamers weren’t happy with the way they communicated so they built a product knowing that gamers would hop on it as soon as they could.

Now, gamers aren’t happy with the whole gaming ecosystem being separated. Everyone is already on discord, so let’s keep them on Discord and let us handle how people join games.

The vision is always a little blurry for Discord. However, we have seen that they are growing at a rapid rate and with the entire gaming community backing them.

Soon, it seems like integrating your platform with Discord is a must, otherwise your game might not be played as much as it should be. Making Discord not only powerful, but almost unstoppable.