Discord is clearly the de facto service for gamers who want to talk to their friends, and it turns out that its origin story is very similar in nature.
There’s no doubt that there are countless Final Fantasy XIV Discord servers out there for various reasons, whether it’s for a specific game server or something more personal. It turns out that Discord co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy is not that different from Final Fantasy Discord users, as he created the app largely because of his I’m looking for a place to talk about Final Fantasy 11 (Square Enix’s original MMO) on the series. In an interview with Famitsu (roughly translated by Siliconera), Vishnevskiy was asked how the chat service came about.
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The co-founder explained that he loved Final Fantasy XI so much during h is student days that even then he was developing a prototype version of what would eventually become Discord – essentially just a place he could use to chat with friends while playing the game Conversational applications for massively multiplayer online games. Later, when he started working at GREE, he met another Discord co-founder, Jason Citron, and the two decided to make the app together. Final Fantasy 11 is still going on, so if you’re feeling nostalgic, you can also be like Vishnevskiy and use Discord to chat with friends while you play.
Vishnevskiy also noted that he’s also a die-hard Final Fantasy 14 player, even taking a week off when the MMO’s latest expansion, Road to Dawn, launched earlier this year. He’s obviously been there since the beginning, just like the original 1.0 version, and there’s a leftover tattoo mark to prove it. Essentially, you can thank the Final Fantasy forums for no longer being the place to find incredible niche gaming information, because now it’s buried in some discord you’ve never heard of, buried in the Among thousands of messages. Thanks, Final Fantasy!
