[QUERY] Steam Chat vs Discord : Steam

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Why do people use Discord when they have Steam Chat?

I got curious when I noticed game developers on Steam sending Discord group links.

Why didn't they setup a Steam Group Chat?

1. Is it because Steam is more/less secure?

2. Is it because they don't know about Steam Chat?

3. Is it because Discord is better than Steam Chat?

4. Is it because Steam Chat isn't as cool as Discord?

References
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/discord-vs-steam-chat/

https://steamcommunity.com/updates/chatupdate
"Quality and Security
Steam voice chat was rewritten from the ground up with a new WebRTC-based backend. As a result, voice chat uses high quality Opus encoding, voice traffic is encrypted, and all traffic is sent through Steam servers rather than directly to peers. This keeps your IP address private, which masks your physical location and also prevents network attacks."

[Blargo]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Publicado originalmente por the.angelhunter:

People already answered most questions. As to why not setup their own forum. The counter question: Why setup your own forum when you can use discord that's already setup for you.

No work, don't need your own hosting, don't need someone to maintain the technical part, don't have to pay for said hosting.

Also moderation is a lot easier on discord for larger groups compared to steam chat due to the provided tools.

This sounds a lot like your other topics where you ask weird things

Hmmm.. It's not that difficult to setup a forum... However, the hosting might be something that they don't want to pay for....

Well, here's another thing:

If every game publisher set up their own proprietary discussion platforms, us users would have to create and manage a bunch of different user accounts for every one of them that we might want to join.

Personally, I'd much rather not have to do that.

[Brian9824]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Publicado originalmente por brian9824:

Discord is easier and doesn't require a website or as much knowledge. It has lots of features like being able to create different channels, set up announcements, etc. All features that steam group chat doesn't have and to be honest doesn't need.

Hmmm.... A peculiarity... I wonder why Steam chooses not to do the same thing?

Because Steam chat is meant to be a basic chat, nothing more. Its not meant for businesses to use.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Publicado originalmente por Dxpress:

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Hmmm.. It's not that difficult to setup a forum... However, the hosting might be something that they don't want to pay for....

Well, here's another thing:

If every game publisher set up their own proprietary discussion platforms, us users would have to create and manage a bunch of different user accounts for every one of them that we might want to join.

Personally, I'd much rather not have to do that.

Yet, you are willing to do it with Discord?

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Publicado originalmente por brian9824:

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Hmmm.... A peculiarity... I wonder why Steam chooses not to do the same thing?

Because Steam chat is meant to be a basic chat, nothing more. Its not meant for businesses to use.

Sure, acceptable.

Your post says basic chat.

[Brian9824]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Publicado originalmente por Dxpress:

Well, here's another thing:

If every game publisher set up their own proprietary discussion platforms, us users would have to create and manage a bunch of different user accounts for every one of them that we might want to join.

Personally, I'd much rather not have to do that.

Yet, you are willing to do it with Discord?

You don't do that with discord, you create 1 account and can join multiple channels.

[Edifier]

Steam chat does all the things I ever need with a chat.
So don't really need another one.

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Publicado originalmente por brian9824:

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Yet, you are willing to do it with Discord?

You don't do that with discord, you create 1 account and can join multiple channels.

So, would the same logic apply with Facebook?

[Brian9824]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Publicado originalmente por brian9824:

You don't do that with discord, you create 1 account and can join multiple channels.

So, would the same logic apply with Facebook?

Sure but your being very odd. Can't think of any game companies that use facebook as their main communication platform. It's not remotely built for it.

Steam chat is just that, a chat option.

Discord has other functionality built in like voice chats, announcements, linking, roles, etc and is designed for companies to use as a replacement or supplement to forums

[WhiteKnight]

Steam chat = Basic
Discord = Advanced

[<™[-=> Cookiez <=-]™>]

Publicado originalmente por brian9824:

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

So, would the same logic apply with Facebook?

Sure but your being very odd. Can't think of any game companies that use facebook as their main communication platform. It's not remotely built for it.

Steam chat is just that, a chat option.

Discord has other functionality built in like voice chats, announcements, linking, roles, etc and is designed for companies to use as a replacement or supplement to forums

It's the logic behind it.

Discord is not the only forum.

There's Discourse, Yahoo, Google Teams, Slack, etc.

I'm just wondering why they would pick Discord over any of the above mentioned.

Steam is just a clothes horse for this conversation.

There are many others.

[the.angelhunter]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Moderation is easier on Discord?

How so?

In steam chat you have less permissions. You can disallow a certain role to send messages. But that's for all channels. In Discord you can change it per channel. On discord you also can chance whether their links will be embeded, whether they can add attachments.

On discord you can require certain levels of verification to stop spam accounts/bots. Like: "Must have verified email", "Must be a member of this server > 10 minutes", "must have a verified phone".

Ban list is a bit more detailed, allows for bulk changes, and some more

[the.angelhunter]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

I'm just wondering why they would pick Discord over any of the above mentioned.

Steam is just a clothes horse for this conversation.

There are many others.

It got a lot of possitive points, it became popular, so a lot people use it, making it popular. Not much to it

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Haven't used Discourse, Yahoo, or Google Teams, but...

Discord - keeps all chat history indefinitely, for free
Slack - chat history only up to like 10,000 or lines or something; to view the rest you need to pay

Also

Discord and Steam chat and Slack and others are instant messaging services.

A forum is not instant messaging. It is built for asynchronous communication.

[Brian9824]

Publicado originalmente por <™-=> Cookiez <=-™>:

Publicado originalmente por brian9824:

Sure but your being very odd. Can't think of any game companies that use facebook as their main communication platform. It's not remotely built for it.

Steam chat is just that, a chat option.

Discord has other functionality built in like voice chats, announcements, linking, roles, etc and is designed for companies to use as a replacement or supplement to forums

It's the logic behind it.

Discord is not the only forum.

There's Discourse, Yahoo, Google Teams, Slack, etc.

I'm just wondering why they would pick Discord over any of the above mentioned.

Steam is just a clothes horse for this conversation.

There are many others.

None of those are remotely designed for what Discord is.....

[Edifier]

Publicado originalmente por WhiteKnight:

Steam chat = Basic
Discord = Advanced

How is it basic?

Steam chat can handle videos being posted. Same with images and gifs. After that there is little to add to a chat.

Is there something Discord can do that Steam chat can't?