Discord Remembers Roots, Will Double Down on Gaming | Push Square

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Discord has announced that it will roll back its ambitious plans to become a broader communication app after rediscovering its roots as a private place to yell at your friends while gaming. This means an opportunity for a redesign with group messages, voice chats, video calls and more being reworked.

In a message to users (thanks, The Verge), Discord CEO Jason Citron says the company must narrow its focus and back away from «broadly being a community-centric chat app» and will instead endeavour to «help people deepen their friendships around games and shared interests».

These changes are expected to arrive sometime this year and purport to improve the reliability of its voice, video, and streaming technology. Discord support was added in a recent PS5 firmware update, which works remarkably well and is essential when playing cross-platform games like Helldivers 2 with PC friends. If you find Discord overwhelming, you aren't alone but sleep soundly knowing we've put together an informative guide on how to connect to PS5 and transfer voice chat.

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Are you glad to see Discord double down on games and gamers? Are there any features you'd like to see supported on PS5? Let us know in the comments section below.

Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.

i use discord for more than gaming so i wish they would’ve went with it. i love discord for gaming as much as everything else it does

ive never used Discord

@trev666 nope. Me neither.

And here was me thinking their core audience was nonces.

Nah, I want PlayStation communities back.

I mean does it need changed? Works perfectly fine as is, just seems like