Microsoft Wants To Buy Discord For $10 Billion Dollars

[Demon_Skeith]

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft is one of several companies “in talks” to purchase chat and community platform Discord, for a price said to be in excess of $10 billion.

The report says Microsoft is “in the running”, but that talks are continuing and no deal has yet been made. A source indicates that “Discord is more likely to go public than sell itself”

 

[Ash]

It would be interesting to see what ends up happening with Discord if they do purchase them. Discord on Xbox consoles would be pretty cool to see one day

 

[Demon_Skeith]

It would be interesting to see what ends up happening with Discord if they do purchase them. Discord on Xbox consoles would be pretty cool to see one day

People are more worried about MS ruining discord like they did with Skype.

Though let's focus on the fact they want to drop TEN BILLION DOLLARS on this! I mean, billions! Do you know what I would do with just one billion dollars? What is one billion dollars? I don't even know and may never know

 

[froggyboy604]

Wow, $10 billion is a lot of money.

 

[Ash]

It is definitely a lot. I think we all forget how big just $1 billion is. It's easier to comprehend how massive it is when you say $999.9 million.

 

[Grungie]

People are more worried about MS ruining discord like they did with Skype.

Though let's focus on the fact they want to drop TEN BILLION DOLLARS on this! I mean, billions! Do you know what I would do with just one billion dollars? What is one billion dollars? I don't even know and may never know

How’d they ruin Skype? It doesn’t seem like it’s changed much in 15 years.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

How’d they ruin Skype? It doesn’t seem like it’s changed much in 15 years.

every comment section I've seen is screaming they ruined skype.

 

[Grungie]

every comment section I've seen is screaming they ruined skype.

I guess when all I do is just video and voice calls, can't really see much change that's happened.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I guess when all I do is just video and voice calls, can't really see much change that's happened.

I've only used it a few times, I haven't noticed anything.

 

[Grungie]

I've only used it a few times, I haven't noticed anything.

I did look up what they allegedly messed up, and it's a lot stuff like user error, but it's easier to blame Skype. "My mic was working last week, clearly it was Skype's fault".

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I did look up what they allegedly messed up, and it's a lot stuff like user error, but it's easier to blame Skype. "My mic was working last week, clearly it was Skype's fault".

I do remember some people wanting older versions that were no longer supported, best blame MS!

 

[Grungie]

I do remember some people wanting older versions that were no longer supported, best blame MS!

If they removed some actual features, I get it to an extent. If it’s a UI change, get over it.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

If they removed some actual features, I get it to an extent. If it’s a UI change, get over it.

With 4 years of selling and upgrading people's PCs to newer things, they do not get over it....

 

[Grungie]

With 4 years of selling and upgrading people's PCs to newer things, they do not get over it....

It’s like when a popular website updates it’s UI and people threaten to leave it, and 10 years later they’re still using Youtube

 

[Demon_Skeith]

It’s like when a popular website updates it’s UI and people threaten to leave it, and 10 years later they’re still using Youtube

It's like when DeviantART did their change, people were bitching up a storm.

 

[Grungie]

It's like when DeviantART did their change, people were bitching up a storm.

Yet they still use it.

I had some music composition software that got updated with a lot of well welcomed features that a ton of people wanted. So you'd think people would be happy for the update, but no, because they changed the UI, they'd rather go without the features that they wanted, and stick to the more limiting previous version.