A few weeks back, I got a new phone and set about reinstalling and updating everything. And I happened to notice Discord’s motto or tagline on Android: “Talk, play, hang out.”

Y’all, I got hit with a huge wave of sadness because that describes basically everything I used to get out of MMOs. I know, times have changed, and it’s not as if people haven’t already been pointing all this out for 10 years, including me. But seeing it as the actual marketing tagline for the very app that simultaneously consolidated and fragmented the MMO social scene outside of MMOs really hit me hard. At least that’s how I see it.

How about you? Do you think Discord is a major problem or solution in the MMO social scene?

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