Discord was created to bring friends together around games. A lot has changed since Discord started in 2015, as it’s grown to welcome hundreds of millions of people who play games and enjoy so many other experiences together. One thing has stayed true: helping people deepen their friendships by playing games remains the heart and soul of why we do what we do at Discord.
A lot has changed since 2015 for the games industry too. Today, more of us are playing on multiple devices, and more games than ever are launching each year. On Discord alone, we host 1.5 billion hours of gameplay across more than 60,000 titles every month. This is all awesome, except it’s becoming really difficult for game developers to break through and bring their ideas to life as a successful business.
Over the years, we’ve spent a lot of time with devs to learn about the intersection of our worlds and how we might be able to make Discord better for them, and even partner with them to bring you more cool stuff. They brought some really interesting ideas about how we could help, so today we’re announcing a few new tools that we hope will make building a gaming business a little easier. Let’s talk about how we’ll expand Quests and our Shop.
