It may impress that Microsoft is about to acquire Discord, the messaging app dedicated to gaming (although lately very suitable for other purposes), for 10.000 billion dollars as pointed out by Bloomberg.
A chat app that has even been able to dethrone others for its effectiveness and because of how easy it is to enjoy features that other applications like Discord go through the paid subscription.
First of all, what is Discord?
For the one who you are not used to playing a few games in an online game where you participate in a community of gamers, or simply does not have colleagues with whom he joins games to pass captures, tricks, tutorials or simply make a GIF or video to have a good time, surely that Discord may be a total stranger.
But Microsoft is about to drop 10.000 billion dollars, It is not for nothing, but because we are facing a great app and because it has a very vast community of users throughout the planet.
Discord was born as a meeting point for video game players a few years ago when the only way to unite the players of a clan, for example, was through forums or those voice apps as was TeamServer more than 15 years ago.
This lack of not having an app dedicated to messaging for games, made it very popular in a short time. Through our lines we made it known in 2016, But its public launch was in 2015. So we are talking about an app that was launched 6 years ago in 2021 can be sold for that huge amount.
Discord, Apart from offering VoIP voice chat, video and text chat, it also generates a great experience to create online communities of any subject thanks to the groups and all those characteristics that it offers. In fact, having an app for every mobile device or PC with which we can create audio or video rooms and to which anyone can join in a very simple way, has also been part of its success.
Microsoft goes for Discord for 10.000 billion dollars
A few hours ago we learned that Microsoft would already be in talks to acquire Discord Inc. for more than 10.000 billion dollars. It is not the first time that Discord has been loved by some of the greats.
The importance that Discord has taken for companies like Microsoft is due to the fact that during the pandemic, apart from also increasing its number of users dedicated to gaming, It has also done it for other types of users such as study groups, dance classes, reading clubs and other digital meetings.
Let's say that if Zoom has been the king for video calls, Discord has been for those groups where apart from an audio or a video through the call, a chat is also needed to share links, texts, thoughts, meetings, chats and much more.
For Microsoft it is a possibility to give greater value to its Gamer Pass offer, since it has Microsoft Teams for professionals, Skype for more use of video calls and Discord for gaming; Although, because of how well the app works, it will surprise us in the coming years with more users of all kinds of hobbies joining it.
Now to wait if the sale ends with a good end for Discord and Microsoft and we can talk that it has been sold for $ 10.000 billion shortly after the latter has bought Zenimax Media Inc for $ 7.500 billion (owners of Elder Scrolls and Doom, or Bethesda Softworks).