• warm@kbin.earth
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    75
    ·
    2 days ago

    You couldn’t be more wrong.

    People actually use the shop. they are spending $10-20 on a profile picture border. Now you are telling them that they can get them for “free”? You bet people will do it. Paid cosmetics have poisoned minds.

    • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      17
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 days ago

      Ehhhh I see people with Nitro-included cosmetics but not a lot that have the individually-purchased cosmetics. They exist, sure, but not even close to as many.

      I mod a server with 40,000 users and I’m scrolling through the member list as I type this. Majority are either unsubbed accounts or they have the cheap basic Nitro. A lot of the cosmetics I am seeing are the free ones they’ve given away in recent events. Not many users have full Nitro and have their profiles all decked out with additional cosmetics.

      • JackbyDev@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        2 days ago

        I have the “touch grass” one from April Fool’s day. It’s pretty funny.

        I paid $30 for a year of Nitro basic. I don’t think I’ll do it again. All the actually useful features for me (longer messages and bigger uploads) are behind the more expensive one, and it’s not worth it.

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 day ago

          The only feature I would care about with nitro is using emojis everywhere but that feature isn’t worth any amount of money let alone whatever discord is charging for it

      • warm@kbin.earth
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        2 days ago

        I see some servers with hardly any, some with lots, the cat ears are popular. It depends on the communities you look in. Obviously the majority use Discord completely free, but there’s a significant amount of Nitro subscribers and a good portion of them are also buying things in the shop.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      2 days ago

      Yeah, Discord whales exist. Some people are REALLY proud of their profiles.

    • Chronographs@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      2 days ago

      The thing is I’d much rather they do things like this, where the ads are opt in and the monetized features are mostly just extra for if you are enjoying the platform, than something like introducing ads you have to pay to remove or locking core features behind a paywall.