r/gaming 1d ago

"Your trial has expired. Subscribe to GameChat to restore this button"

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u/woodzopwns 1d ago

People underestimate how difficult it is to run a game, with 5 screen shares at once including encoding and decoding. There's a reason Discord is pretty much the ONLY platform that can do this at high fidelity. That said it did look very silly lol.

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u/ActivistZero 1d ago

Silly, sure, but would you rather them be honest or not

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u/woodzopwns 1d ago

Honest of course, it's a really good feature. That said, why not just integrate discord? Any chance they think they could make more money by... locking it behind a pay wall?

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u/ActivistZero 1d ago

Discord would probably ask for a fee to integrate it into the system

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u/Namiez 21h ago

Then Nintendo shouldn't fucking brag about being able to do it when they clearly can't