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uesc

Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:41am

EDF Discord!

Hey Everybody!
I wanted to let everybody know that there's a large EDF server that's been around for 2+ years now! There's sections for PC and consoles, Looking for groups and much more!

Come check it out:
https://discord.gg/bfGjgTM

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Barrel-roll has EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5

Jul 10, 2019 @ 11:45am

thanks <3

Tarmandan

Jul 10, 2019 @ 1:19pm

shoutout to UESC for starting it back then, it has enhanced my EDF experience ever since he/she founded that server :)

Muu

Jul 10, 2019 @ 3:33pm

lol no thanks

(ADORA)ble 🌈👊 has EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5

Jul 10, 2019 @ 3:47pm

Genuine curiosity, what's the advantage of a Discord over a forum? I've tried using it for various games and found it to be a disorganized nightmare with no upside at all. Yet developers LOVE discord and make all their announcements over there and completely ignore Steam.

Tarmandan

Jul 10, 2019 @ 4:37pm

A discord is good for different purposes. A discord is especially good for finding people to play with. Which is the primary reason to use it. And it is a good replacement for Teamspeak when it is just a handful people communicating like in EDF's case.
And it can offer real time communication like a messenger.
Which is the primary goal of this unofficial EDF discord. It is not the discord of the developers.
And really, discord only make sense for small scale communities.

(ADORA)ble 🌈👊 has EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 5

Jul 10, 2019 @ 6:54pm

Cool. Looks like it serves a perfectly good purpose then. But why would a developer use it as it's primary method of releasing information?

Nauya

Jul 10, 2019 @ 7:14pm

Originally posted by Usmovers_02:
Cool. Looks like it serves a perfectly good purpose then. But why would a developer use it as it's primary method of releasing information?

I would say it's a combination of factors why Devs choose to do this.

Number one would definitely be something of a mix of personalizing the link between dev and player and also making it a lot easier to be transparent about your game development.

Other reasons off the top of my head I could think of are the fact that Discord is widely popular now and nearly any gamer online will have an account for it if anything making it so all the people interested in your game or community can all gather around one contained place (the Discord server for your subject) which you can then subsequently make rooms where only specified people can send messages in but everyone can see, letting you easily categorize / separate game announcements, live streams, patch notes, etc for a really nice and easy feed that has super easy access for anyone to just read vs something like Twitter where unless you dedicate your entire twitter page to just one purpose, people will have to dig through all of your posts to find what they're looking for.

Basically a well managed and properly channel sorted Discord can be compared to an "Instant Forum" if done right that has a lot less hassle and is free to make and use.

You can also include incentives for people to use said Discord in the form of emotes due to the fact that Nitro users can take those emotes and use them anywhere else on Discord.

TL;DR
Ease of access and use, fast communication, easy transparency, makes developers feel more like real people to the masses than robots. Roll it all together with a dedicated area where people interested in said subject can hang out, share things, and talk in voice at the same time too.