254
What app is so useless, you can't believe it costs money? (feddit.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
198 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 112 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

it's not an entire app but, discord profile decorations.

The fact it costs money isn't surprising, but the amount of money charged is hilarious.

17$ for some graphics that some look like they took about 20 minutes to make. Just to make your profile look different than everyone elses. Then the "discount" given for having nitro for it is even more laughable.

Whats equally insane is that people fall for it. I know some people that have easily spent 60$ on profile decorations. Spending equal or greater than the cost of discord nitro is insane to me, even if the decoration doesn't expire.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The thing that I find insane is having to pay for Nitro to have an animated .gif as your profile pic.

    ...The animation is played client-side, so literally costs Discord nothing to do this, and as a matter of fact it's actually more effort for them to intentionally block animations from playing until you pony up than just letting the browser container the app runs in natively do its thing. Given that the Discord app itself is basically just a glorified webview container with some stuff bolted onto it.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I don't want to sound like I'm on Discord's side (I dislike nitro too), but that's honestly just how a lot of paid add-on features on free apps work. They take away some functionality from the free one to incentivize people to pay.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    On a similar note, skins and other cosmetics in video games that do nothing to help with camouflage—or worse—make you stand out more. Never understood why people waste money on that.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Early days of of micro-transactions did help you blend in more, but I noticed they started diverging away, leaving the more natural camos to be unlocked by gameplay, and the obnoxious/distracting ones as a premium.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I can see that for a free game that you enjoy a lot, and want to reward with some money. You can make a donation, or get a silly skin for the same money (and have it visible that you donated some).

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Also how discord dœs stickers . Like custom emojes , they're tied to discord servers , unless you have nitro then you can use them everywhere . Such BS system , shoulda done them how LINE dœs them : you only need to buy the sticker pack once then you use them anywhere , no shitty subscription needed !

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Holy fuck, as if I needed more reasons to hate Discord... back when I thought it was just a new iteration of xFire I still hated it but could at least see a purpose for it, but it doesn't even do all the shit xFire could

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Xfire was the shit. I'd have paid a couple bucks a month for it, instead of it just dying. It was so crazy ahead of its time. Text chat, voice, game detection and tracking, clans, server browsing, broadcasting, pic and video hosting...

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent