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> for multiplayer games at least, people first fire up the way they want to talk with their friends and then set about playing a game I believe it's the other
by drdaeman 8y ago
> for multiplayer games at least, people first fire up the way they want to talk with their friends and then set about playing a game
I believe it's the other way around. At the very least, it's the other way around for me and my friends.
We decide we want to play something. Then we check whatever works for voice chat. Used to be Skype, then TeamSpeak 3, then Mumble, then Discord. When Discord had failed we've just brought back old TS3 server (and while I was doing it, we used in-game VoIP stuff, hardcore-mode).
- benatkin 8y agoDiscord is used like Slack, you don't arrange to meet on Discord before you meet on Discord, you just fire up Discord and see who's around or message someone. I'm sure some use it the way you describe but it doesn't seem like the most common usage pattern to me.
- gknoy 8y agoFor day-to-day use, sure. But, a common way that many teams/squads/groups/guilds move to Discord is that they find that _all of the random pick up groups_, or servers, etc, are having people use Discord (instead of Mumble or TS or Ventrilo..etc).