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how important is to have a discord server?

A topic by Melinda2424 created 9 days ago Views: 221 Replies: 12
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Greetings, I don't have a discord server, do you think I should?

I don't have it for two reasons:

1.- my community is very quiet, no one publicly assumes to play my game (NSFW).

So I assume that discord would be empty all the time.

2.- I am afraid to take the risks.

My game has good intentions, but it's still ideologically sensitive, I'm afraid to expose myself to people who don't like it, and probably moderating the server could be a problem.

(the game does not encourage anything bad, but I understand that people who have not played it enough might misinterpret it).

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I'd say create a server only if there is a demand for it. If there isn't a demand, don't bother creating one.

The only upside is that I need feedback for bug reports.

Can you provide a different way for them to report bug issues? Perhaps a Google Form or through your social media? You could even have people report bugs just on the project page on itch.io. 

You don't need to have an entire Discord just for bug reporting.

Right now I have two ways, on the itch page, and by mail (for those looking for something more private), and so far both ways are total silence, although the mail was added recently.

By mail, do you mean physical mail? 

Also, if you are looking for people to bug check for you, it may be good to make a post specifically asking people to quality check your game. For example, you could post here or on reddit to ask for volunteers.

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e-mail, I made an e-mail espacially for that...

And I have a beta tester, just one...

I usually make promotion on reddit, do you know any good sub-reddit to looking for volunteers?

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lol okay. Usually people only use "mail" to refer to physical mail so I just wanted to double check

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sorry, english is not my first language... XD

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Make one, it's worth it especially with bug reports and stuff.

I recently had a huge bug in the demo, it was there for months and no one told me about it.

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I'll join if you make one :D

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No point unless you are aiming at kids. Most people born before 2000 won't know what it is. I get people all the time asking what it is. Most people assume it's just another Facebook. Same with twitch it's just a YouTube clone.


Wouldn't bother although I found some helpful stuff on there but not really worth having for most adults going forward