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https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-to-not-use-discord/#:~:text=1 Discord's Free Version Has Upload Limits. For,your account for any reason they see fit. https://stallman.org/discord.html https://cadence.moe/blog/2020-06-06-why-you-shouldnt-trust-discord also found this from 2019 Long story. It’s the NSA’s wet dream. Discord is filled with tracking systems which can’t be disabled. They claim they need to have these in order for some system involving push to talk to switch off if Discord detects you playing a game. That being said, Discord can monitor every application open on your computer. This is how they show what games people are playing. It has a much more nefarious side however as this data is stored by the company, who will hold that alongside everything else you give them. Currently they’re backed by investors, but when that dries up, expect a Facebook level data auction from them. (Remember Cambridge Analytica?) The owner of Discord is Jason Citron. He has been involved with privacy breaches in the past with his previous venture, OpenFeint. OpenFeint - Wikipedia. This involved the same pattern. Investments ended, the company switched to auctioning off the information of their users. Gamers Say OpenFeint Sold Them Out. OpenFeint was involved in lawsuits involving the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2012. If you use Discord on your phone, it may randomly lock you out until you give them your phone number. They claim this is for security and that you did something to provoke its systems, but this is unknown. The Discord subreddit is full of people who believe they have unjustly been targeted. Using a VPN will trigger this, so anonymity on Discord is one big nono! They want to store your data for when the investments slow down. Discord is like Facebook in a lot of ways. In a way, it’s Facebook in its youth. Young Facebook got lots of investments, but as it grew and became older, the investments slowed down and Facebook had to find its own footing to increase its revenue. They became a data collection company. That’s their main purpose. Social media is just the avenue they use to collect the data of users. For Discord, it’s the VOIP market. They offer the best service, no doubt about it, but when it comes to privacy, they’re downright awful. Your private conversations with other users are not encrypted with E2EE, which means Discord can log them, and sell your “private” topics to advertisers. They’re still in their youth, they haven’t matured yet and had to fund their own company, but let me tell you, sustaining constant investments forever won’t work. Someday they’ll move onto the next big thing. Then you’re all on your own.

Is Snarky being paid by Cosmic Council to advertise for them? Just curious:)

The gig is up GM_arcane. it’s time to come clean!

Sorry 😞 couldn’t resist.

I don’t use them, so I vote no

I’m glad we don’t get a peek. Could you imagine all the complaining that would go on?

Nothing will happen with this thread, everyone knows that. Now for you - are you married? Have kids? Have a job? Have possessions? Why? You’re going to die anyways. Pointing out the obvious in take away the joy others get in something trivial, is negativity. Sorry. For the record, I wasn’t and am not telling you how you should be. If you look up to perefrinefalcon, and want to be him when you grow up - that’s your choice. I was simply making an observation.

So negative

Why? I am curious.

Snarky, is that you? You’ve lost weight!

Stop it!

Sorry to derail things, but I am generally curious- @Rudra do you solo exclusively? And if yes, why? You’re very active on the forums, so you obviously enjoy some sort of interaction.

How dare he bring team based powers to a game that was originally team based! The nerve!

I have you a thumbs down because you said that you quit playing because of a sound change. Not sure how that equates to me being selfish and spoiled, but whatever makes you feel better I guess.

Having a bad day ?

Its not you, its mee 😪 I did give you a purple trophy thingy yesterday I gotta stop pushing the the little like/dislike buttons

Do you think the small team of devs we have would be able to pump out new content fast enough to keep the players who left, from leaving? There are some who experienced all the storylines/missions/TFs/arc on every alt imaginable, and then left. I believe the majority who left due to lack of content, worked there way to 50 and said “done!” These are the same people who go through 12-15 games a year because there only goal is to complete it. It’s impossible to keep up with these types of individuals.

In all seriousness, the people referenced by the OP will never see the issues within themselves.

Ahh. Guess it was me who was fixated on the wrong thing

This I can understand, but the need to “walk through” players make me think the OP may be playing the wrong type of game.

First time I’ve heard this makes the game “unfun to play” Perhaps you are the only one who feels this way. If so, why should the game be changed to accommodate you?

Why do RPers need to be able to walk through each other ?

I’ll run some tonight!

Tell me how/where to find them - I’ll gladly put a team together to check them out