Discord empowers devs to turn community servers into stores

Discord is a social network first. While the platform has a store and subscription service, it recognizes that most people come to it for communications. But now the chat/voice service, which raised $150 million in December, is adding in commerce options where they make sense: developer- and publisher-owned game communities.

Discord added verified servers in October 2017. These are official game channels that Discord vets to ensure they are owned by the real developers. This gives players a way to get in deeper with a fan community or to reach out directly to a dev team. And now Discord is beefing up verified servers with the store and news channels.