The game store Discord is launched globally today with independent gems such as Hollow Knight and Dead Cells

The digital game store Discord, launched for the first time to only 50,000 users in Canada in August, is now available worldwide in public beta, announced the online chat company. The market, simply called Discord Store, launches 22 titles, including Team Cherry's Hollow knight and other independent jewels like Dead cells and In the breach. Five of these 21 titles are labeled "First on Discord", which means that Discord is the main distribution of these titles at launch.

Discord, a PC-centric application that combines voice and text chat with a robust platform for third-party integrations, is one of the fastest growing gaming companies in the last decade. Launched just three years ago, it now has 150 million registered users, many of whom use the app to chat and see how their friends play at one time.

Discord, because it controls much of the social aspect of the game, now exploits its ubiquity in the PC ecosystem to compete with the Valve's Steam market, which is by far the largest gaming platform. for PC. The game of Discord here makes a lot of sense: if it can bypass Steam, it can become the only destination to buy games, launch these games, chat with your friends about these games and chat in real time. play these games. Meanwhile, Valve began borrowing discussion features at Discord to try to make Steam a more attractive place to spend time and chat with friends, instead of a simple gaming store stripped.

Of course, Discord will need reputable game makers to support its platform, while many of the industry's leading publishers, such as EA, Epic, and Ubisoft, tend to bypass any third-party platform in favor of the platform. Use by the players. their own software. For the moment, the company is positioning its store less like a true Steam competitor and more like a carefully organized selection of games. The selection relies on "more friendships and games than on what is currently available in the ecosystem," said Discord's marketing director, Eros Resmini. The edge in an interview in August. "Our goal with Discord is to bring players together – never to fragment or add friction to the game with friends."

As part of the availability of its worldwide stores, Discord introduces a new universal library feature that will allow you to launch a game from the Discord app, regardless of where it has been purchased. Discord also extends its subscription service to Nitro games. This service, which will now operate as a subscription service for a game similar to Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass, now costs $ 9.99 per month and includes more than 80 titles. The cost is double what it was before, but all the standard features (custom Discord tags, high quality screen sharing, and higher loading limits) are still available, in addition to the new one. games library provided.