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Harvey Randall

Over 48% of unreleased games have a Discord server, and I'm sure this is all fine and normal and I don't miss forums at all

The Discord logo is displayed on a smartphone screen and on a computer screen in Athens, Greece, on April 17, 2024. (Photo Illustration by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

It is the year 2026. You are in 25 Discord servers. Six of them are for your friends and family, one of them is so you can create custom emojis, one is just called "the chungle zone", you do not remember how you joined it. The rest are all videogames you haven't played in months.

I cannot say I'm exactly thrilled about the seeming legal requirement for every single videogame to have a Discord server now, nor am I—admittedly as someone whose job it is to keep up with these things—particularly jazzed about the fact that a lot of game companies are using said servers for their entire news cycle. I hear the Discord ping in my sleep.

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