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Why the new Steam Chat won't woo PC gamers away from Discord |
July 26, 2018
Valve pushed the new Steam Chat to all users yesterday and it’s pretty great! The overhauled client no longer feels like a turn-of-the-century ICQ clone. Instead, the new Steam Chat swipes an awful lot from Discord, the supercharged communication software taking the gaming world by storm. But for all the fresh features, Steam Chat won’t win entrenched gamers back from Discord, and the reason why is right there in the name. It’s Steam Chat.In most aspects, Valve’s refreshed chat client is just as polished as Discord now. You can easily create persistent group chats that behave similarly to Discord servers, and separate sub-channels for text or voice at any time inside those chats. You can also see GIFs, YouTube videos,Tweets, and other rich text links inside of chat now. Your friends can be grouped by game or favorites, and their status can show deeper information about what they’re doing in a game if the developers support it. So yeah, the new Steam Chat basically is Discord, but in Steam.To read this article in full, please click here
Link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3292937/gaming/new-steam-chat-vs-discord.html#tk.rss_all
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