Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for $10 Billion
Will Discord Sell Out?
By JT
If you’re a gamer then you must have heard Discord has massively increased during the pandemic. Discord is incredibly important to the gaming community as it stands to be the favorite community-based app on the market. If you haven’t heard of the recent news with Discord, Microsoft and Discord are currently in talks of an acquisition that would see them under the umbrella of the multinational tech company. If this talk goes through and a conclusion is set, we could possibly see changes that may change the way Discord functions. If not, then the future of Discord will remain safe.
What is Discord?
Discord Inc. is a privately owned company that was co-founded by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy in 2015. The goal of Discord in its early days was to have connections of friendships that were made while playing games. Discord offered Voice, Text, and Video to talk to others from around the world. People from around the world started loving what Discord offered and how simple it was.
Now, Discord has expanded to not only a way of communication , but a way to build a community of whatever you would like. There are so many different communities now of different topics like Music, study groups, school clubs, and obviously game related groups.
Discord’s stats as for now have over 100 Million monthly active users and 13.5 Million active servers on the platform. Each server is made to find different people with the same interests and a platform to connect and create a strong friendship or hang out with others that enjoy the same interests.
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If Microsoft and Discord come to an agreement, then things might be changing for Discord but also for Microsoft. Since Discord is a application that provides a way of communication, then there is a possibility that Microsoft would find a way to integrate this app into its other products. Microsoft’s main idea of trying to acquire Discord is to expand their gaming business as they have already bought ZeniMax Media Inc. which is a video game publisher and with Discord, they could possibly be above Sony, which they are currently trying to compete with.
In an interview with a Bloomberg News Editor, Vlad Savov, explained how Discord could ultimately help Microsoft. Mr. Savov spoke about Xbox’s Game Pass and how Discord will help bring in more users and what it can do when it gets information that Discord has. Since Discord relies on Google’s Cloud infrastructure, having this information in the hands of Microsoft, it it massively create ways to get more users into the gaming circle that it is trying to build and expand.
Final thoughts
So what do you guys think?
Should Discord go through with this deal? Should Microsoft put extra work into making this work if they are successful in obtaining Discord?
One thing is for sure, both of the companies will benefit from this if the deal is made. Discord would become more popular, Microsoft may become the forefront of gaming, finally surpassing Sony. New changes both good and bad will arise. Comment your thoughts and let us know how you feel about this deal.
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