Battlefield: Bad Company 2 remains one of the most beloved of DICE’s multiplayer shooters, thrilling players with its destructible warzones and cementing the Swedish studio’s reputation for incredible audio design. Despite the game’s reputation, DICE never greenlit a third entry in the spinoff series. But that didn’t stop BC2’s director David Goldfarb from making plans for one all the same.
Goldfarb recently revealed some of these plans on X (via GamesRadar) having rediscovered “the first three pages” of one of his Bad Company 3 scripts. “I forgot I had the store Haggard was working in called the ‘Adiosvidaniya’ and now I am freaked out by how much might actually have been accurate,” he writes, referring to how the script reflects Russia’s apparent encroaching influence on US politics.
Haggard is the demolitions expert from Bad Company 2’s single-player campaign, and the comic relief of your squad. Goldfarb subsequently posted a “snippet” from his BC3 script, depicting a scene in which Haggard convinces a juvenile shoplifter to hand back the goods he stole from the convenience store Haggard works in, while his parakeet ‘Miss July’ chimes in with mimicked phrases.
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The extract itself reveals little about Goldfarb’s broader plans. Instead, those mainly emerge from user replies and Goldfarb’s responses to them. For example, Bad Company 2 ends on a cliffhanger as the Russians invade Alaska, a point which is raised by one respondent to Goldfarb’s post. “Short version is, Russia won and partially took over Alaska,” Goldfarb replies.
Another user, going by the name Volt, proposes his own theory about how the rest of the story goes “So, they got kicked out of the military clearly,” they write. “I’m guess[ing] there’s a ‘gang gets back together’ for a special (impossible) mission”. To which Goldfarb simply replies, “yup.”
It’s worth noting that this is merely Goldfarb’s vision for how Bad Company 3’s story would have gone down, similar to Marc Laidlaw’s thinly veiled story summary for Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Asked whether DICE actually entertained the concept of Bad Company 3 as a project, Goldfarb replies, “the studio didn’t, I was writing it anyway for myself.”
Nonetheless, it’s intriguing to hear how Bad Company 3 may have worked out, not least because it’s been quite some time since we had any Battlefield at all. We did get to see a whole 10 seconds of Battlefield 6 recently, but that isn’t much to sustain ourselves on. But even if a Bad Company 3 did somehow happen, it’s unlikely Goldfarb would be involved. He currently heads up his own studio The Outsiders, whose most recent project was the thoroughly enjoyable rhythm FPS Metal: Hellsinger.
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You’ll find the answer to today’s Wordle waiting for you just a little further down this page if you need it, happy to flip a tough game around at short notice. And if you don’t need it, you can spend some time with our everyday tips and tricks, or take a quick peek at the March 9 (1359) hint if you’d like to give your game a lift without spoiling your fun.
I had a spectacular turnaround in today’s game. I went straight from basically nothing to four brilliant green letters all lined up in a neat row. Then four green letters lined up in a neat row again. I wasn’t quite so pleased the second time around. At least it meant turning it into five was only a matter of burning through the alphabet until there was nothing left. Phew.
Wordle today: A hint
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Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, March 9
This is a selfish desire to take more than you need, regardless of how much would be considered fair or reasonable. Taking an oversized helping of cake. Choosing to receive a huge bonus instead of sharing the money equally with fellow workers.
Is there a double letter in Wordle today?Â
Yes, there is a double letter in today’s puzzle.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every dayÂ
If you’ve decided to play Wordle but you’re not sure where to start, I’ll help set you on the path to your first winning streak. Make all your guesses count and become a Wordle winner with these quick tips:
A good opener has a mix of common vowels and consonants.
The answer could contain the same letter, repeated.
Avoid words that include letters you’ve already eliminated.
You’re not racing against the clock so there’s no reason to rush. In fact, it’s not a bad idea to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Sometimes stepping away for a while means you can come back with a fresh perspective.
Today’s Wordle answer
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What is today’s Wordle answer?
Enjoy another win. The answer to the March 9 (1359) Wordle is GREED.
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Previous Wordle answers
The last 10 Wordle answersÂ
Previous Wordle solutions can help to eliminate guesses for today’s Wordle, as the answer isn’t likely to be repeated. They can also give you some solid ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh.
Here are some recent Wordle answers:
March 8: NAVEL
March 7:Â TROOP
March 6:Â ALERT
March 5: SCRUM
March 4:Â CHECK
March 3:Â SPEAR
March 2:Â DEITY
March 1:Â HOVER
February 28:Â FUZZY
February 27:Â LODGE
Learn more about WordleÂ
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There are six rows of five boxes presented to you by Wordle each day, and you’ll need to work out which five-letter word is hiding among them to win the daily puzzle.
Your second guess should compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed on the first row—just don’t forget to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: BOOKS).
If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above.
Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.
It isn’t every day that someone gives you an apartment, let alone an entire block of them. I’ll admit, the whole-ass tenement that’s just landed in my lap is run down, disconnected from the mains, and filled with glowing green mushrooms.
My new digs also might be located in the sealed off district where they contain people infected with a strange and debilitating fungal infection. And fine, the name of the district is literally “Open Sewer”. Nonetheless, you’d be nuts to look a gift horse like that in the mouth, even if said horse is unfurnished and smells overwhelmingly of damp.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
This is the setup for Obenseuer, a delightfully strange blend of survival game and life sim from the makers of spooky structural analysis puzzler INFRA. Currently in Steam early access, where it’s been since way back in 2018, the simplest way to describe it is House Flipper meets Pathologic, and it’s the latter influence that attracted me to it.
Regular House Flipper has never appealed to me. Given I can’t afford to renovate my own house, the idea of sprucing up an imaginary one seems like a mild form of torture. But if you throw in disease, depression, and some kooky NPCs, then pass me a paint-roller because I’m all in, baby.
Obenseuer sets the bar for weirdness high before you even acquire your dilapidated tower block, as a bunch of shadowy figures ask you via television screen what kind of addiction you have. From the four available options I select “mushrooms”, mainly because it’s more interesting than alcohol, and if you select “none” you get a worse addiction than if you just pick one outright.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
I also have to answer several other questions, such as whether I have anyone close to me (Answer: my cat). And if there’s anyone out there who I think might “pose a threat” to me (Answer: my crazy neighbour). Oh, and in answering the final question about my health, I end up with a mild alcohol dependency anyway.
While the visuals are simple, the district oozes with grimy, eerie personality.
Having completed this questionnaire, I’m informed that through what the TV people believe is a clerical error, I’ve been given a whole tenement block. I’m also given a complementary relocation package, which includes some food and drink, some mushroom supplement (for my mushroom cravings), and a disconcerting teddy bear, and then I’m unleashed into Obenseuer.
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The district is about the size of an American city block, comprising several shops like a pharmacy and convenience store, several rundown apartment blocks in addition to the one I own, and a lot of people living in caravans or just out on the street. While the visuals are simple, the district oozes with grimy, eerie personality.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
My tenement is slightly separated from the district proper, located on the far side of a drainage canal and cordoned off by a chainlink fence. Here, some chancing citizen has set up a toll both seemingly designed to annoy me specifically, and it costs me ten Obenseuercoins (the district’s local scrip) just to access my tenement.
The apartment block itself is an absolute dump: with no water or mains supply, a stairwell that has collapsed halfway up the tower, and rooms littered with all manner of detritus, including many piles of fluorescent yellow bags that all read “BIOHAZARD”.
Needless to say, I have my work cut out for me. Obenseuer’s renovation system is both intricate and convoluted. Before you can even begin decorating any apartment, it must be personally surveyed by you, then cleaned of detritus and wall graffiti (which requires you to buy cleaning fluid to remove).
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
At this point, you can hire a local contractor to do specific jobs for you, everything from fixing up the walls to fitting kitchens. Yet even the simplest job costs twice the amount of money you start out with, and that’s just for labour. You must also supply the parts. Planks, nails, bricks, metal sheeting, even construction tarps must be factored into your financial equations.
At the outset, you can earn money by working for a local rooftop farm (which, to be clear, is a farm on a rooftop, not a farm that grows rooftops, though that would probably be more helpful) or by recycling bottles at the nearby bottle bank.
Neither brings in a whole lot of cash, however, and what little money you earn is often frittered away attending to your personal needs—eating, drinking, sleeping, using the facilities (which in my case was a “bucket potty” I found in a nearby apartment storage unit), and managing your various addictions. The game even simulates your mental health, with actions like eating poor quality food potentially leading to depression.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
It’s pretty punishing, probably a little too punishing with the current system balancing. It’s incredibly easy to end up trapped in a subsistence feedback loop, not least because serving one need can increase another. Just drank a beer to satisfy your alcohol craving? Now you need to pee! Also, while it isn’t entirely clear, addictions seem to be exacerbated the more you satisfy them, which may explain why my character seemed to be constantly inhaling mushrooms.
It’s pretty punishing, probably a little too punishing with the current system balancing.
That said. you can claw your way to success in Obenseuer, you just need to figure out how. You can purchase workstations to craft items that you can sell to local merchants. You can turn to a life of crime, breaking into people’s houses and stealing everything that isn’t nailed down.
Simply poking around can often yield surprising rewards. Many areas of the district are bricked or boarded off, and these can be ‘accessed’ using the right tools, with many containing hidden valuables.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
Assuming you can raise the funds to get an apartment to a basic living standard, you can then let it out to tenants located around Obenseuer. Different tenants have different requirements. Some only need the bare minimum, like walls that aren’t falling down and plumbing. Others are right prima donnas, requiring things like electricity and a functioning kitchen. What do you want next, an indoor toilet? This isn’t the Ritz, you know.
In any case, getting tenants in provides a passive source of income, which obviously makes renovating the rest of the block easier. But it will also help you pursue your real goal of unravelling the mysteries of the district.
I’m not going to explain much of this here, but there’s a lot more to Obenseuer than is initially obvious. Finding the right people, and taking on the right quests, can open up pretty massive new areas of the map. There’s some wild stuff going on right under your feet.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
But you don’t need to delve too deeply to discover that Obenseur is profoundly odd. The local mini-market has a fully simulated checkout system. There are vending machines that dispense live rats. The general store is run by a robot made out of rubbish bags.
After poking around my tenement, I discovered that the crazy neighbour I thought I’d left behind was living on the first floor, and was absolutely delighted to see me despite my character seemingly having no memory of him. You can even ask him to pay rent, though something about him, perhaps the fact he had his face painted like someone had put a clown mask on a shark, convinced me this was a bad idea.
(Image credit: Loiste Interactive)
It’s also worth noting that, while the game is ostensibly about becoming a capitalist slumlord, you don’t have to engage with the tenement renovation at all.
You can just wander around chatting to people, subsisting on the meagre funds you collect from recycling bottles, or sticking every coin you have into the mushroom vending machine (there’s several of these too) and getting stoned off your nut on hallucinogenic mycelium. Obenseuer may still be deep in early access, but it’s already a fascinating and, provided you don’t mind applying a bit of elbow grease, surprisingly rewarding time.
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Breeze through your favourite puzzle game with our clue for today’s Wordle, designed to give your game a boost whenever you feel the need for it. Like to kick things off with a bang? It’ll help. Rather hold off until you need it? It’ll give your guesses the nudge they need. And the March 8 (1358) answer is still here if all else fails too. You’ve got this.
An unremarkable start soon gave way to an incredibly helpful combination of yellow clues and green certainties, which, after a small stumble we’ll pretend didn’t happen, quickly became today’s Wordle winning word. I couldn’t have asked for a better start to my weekend, really.
Today’s Wordle hint
(Image credit: Josh Wardle)
Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, March 8
Sometimes this can refer to a central area or place, but often this word is used when talking about a specific feature on a person’s stomach. This body part might be gazed at in self-indulgent contemplation.
Is there a double letter in Wordle today?Â
No, there is not a double letter in today’s puzzle.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every dayÂ
A good starting word can be the difference between victory and defeat with the daily puzzle, but once you’ve got the basics, it’s much easier to nail down those Wordle wins. And as there’s nothing quite like a small victory to set you up for the rest of the day, here are a few tips to help set you on the right path:
A good opening guess should contain a mix of unique consonants and vowels.
Narrow down the pool of letters quickly with a tactical second guess.
Watch out for letters appearing more than once in the answer.
There’s no racing against the clock with Wordle so you don’t need to rush for the answer. Treating the game like a casual newspaper crossword can be a good tactic; that way, you can come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Stepping away for a while might mean the difference between a win and a line of grey squares.
Today’s Wordle answer
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What is today’s Wordle answer?
Here’s your first win of the weekend. The answer to the March 8 (1358) Wordle is NAVEL.
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Previous Wordle answers
The last 10 Wordle answersÂ
Past Wordle answers can give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh. They are also a good way to eliminate guesses for today’s Wordle, as the answer is unlikely to be repeated.
Here are some recent Wordle answers:
March 7: TROOP
March 6:Â ALERT
March 5: SCRUM
March 4:Â CHECK
March 3:Â SPEAR
March 2:Â DEITY
March 1:Â HOVER
February 28:Â FUZZY
February 27:Â LODGE
February 26:Â AWARD
Learn more about WordleÂ
(Image credit: Nurphoto via Getty)
Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and you’ll need to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them to keep up your winning streak.
Your second guess should compliment the starting word, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you missed last time while also trying to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. With a bit of luck, you should have some coloured squares to work with and set you on the right path.
After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the right word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words (so no filling the boxes with EEEEE to see if there’s an E). Don’t forget letters can repeat too (ex: BOOKS).
If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above.
Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.
The first time I woke up last night, somewhere around three in the morning, I checked my phone to see if online stores had already posted and sold out of their stock of AMD’s new RX 9070 XT graphics cards, which carried with them the promise of a GPU launch that would finally have plenty of hardware on hand. Too early. At 5:45 am I woke up again and saw that they’d be going on sale in 15 minutes. No going back to sleep this time.
I’d already made sure I had my credit card info up-to-date at Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy. I had Best Buy’s sole $600 MSRP card model from XFX favorited, with a notification set in the app to ping me when it went on sale. At 6:00, sitting in bed in the dark, I tapped the listing. It hung on a blinding white screen. I backed out and tapped again. This time it loaded. 6:01 am: Sold out.
I never got a notification. Was it ever even available?
Some frantic searching over the next few minutes found no listings yet on Amazon, only the most expensive add-in board cards on B&H Photo, and a range of options on Newegg. The sparkle of hope I had at seeing a $600 card available on Newegg fizzled when the website made me login again, apparently forgetting my credentials in the last six hours, and died 30 seconds later on the checkout screen. Out of stock.
So I did what so many of us do when our plans go to hell: I started negotiating with myself. I’d decided I’d only buy an RX 9070 XT at $600, its intended price, because that price was what made it such a good buy, a win over Nvidia’s impossible-to-get-anyway RTX 5070 Ti. But I was caught up in the moment. I really wanted a new graphics card.
Newegg still had stock of Asus‘s $720 card. Another $120 for 60 MHz of overclocking I’d never notice? What the hell. I bought it, got the confirmation email, and went back to sleep. At least I got a card, right?
Nope. Newegg canceled my order shortly after I placed it, “voided due to insufficient stock.”
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Just another GPU launch
Nothing about this experience made me uniquely cursed—if anything, it’s so normal now for anyone into the hobby of PC gaming that we seem all but resigned to it. Why get mad about a process that feels so completely futile?
AMD didn’t offer details on how many cards were actually being sold at $600 (my guess: a pretty small portion!) and caveated its answer with “excluding region specific tariffs and/or taxes.” For everyone in the US, that means our big dumb president’s big dumb tariff on Chinese imports is almost certainly going to drive up prices.
Our hobby deserves better from the companies that made their billions on the backs of PC gaming.
All signs point to the RX 9070 launch having far more stock than any of Nvidia’s recent RTX 50-series card drops, but does it matter when there are so many people desperate to buy a graphics cards without being gouged to death? When huge swaths of manufacturing capacity are now being rerouted to produce GPUs for AI server farms, which tech companies are falling all over themselves to gobble up? So that they can illegally scrape (steal) more creative work from the internet, all in service of writing a really bland email for you or summarizing things badly?
We shouldn’t be resigned to this, because it’s frankly too embarrassing and annoying to just roll over and accept.
NFTsmay have been dumb enough for us to collectively bully out of existence, but the entire tech economy is now pot-committed to AI, and even if it eventually ends up amazing and life-changing and all the things it’s been breathlessly promised to be, in the meantime it’s still getting in the way of us being able to buy some damn graphics cards for our computers.
Our hobby deserves better from the companies that made their billions on the backs of PC gaming, and it deserves better from the retailers who just shrug every time their sites crash or botters scoop up all their stock the second it goes on sale. If someone bought it, what’s it matter to them, eh? Why should Newegg honor the orders it confirmed when cards were in-stock by earmarking the next shipment for those buyers when it could cancel the orders instead and charge more for them later? (I asked; Newegg didn’t respond to a request for comment).
We also deserve better than misleading MSRPs that barely represent the reality of buying new hardware and misleading marketing pitches that overpromise what new hardware is actually capable of.
(Image credit: Getty, Peter M. Fisher)
The reason to stay mad about all this is that we have proof it can be done better. Valve proved as much with its reservation system for the Steam Deck, which made it possible for everyone who wanted one of the handhelds to get one, even if it took a while.
During the height of cryptomania, beloved GPU company EVGA established a queue system to allow real human beings to reserve a graphics card with none of this “hope the website doesn’t crash under the weight of 1,000 botters hitting it in the first 30 seconds” bullshit. After tariffs led to increased prices, it even honored the original prices for people who’d already signed up to buy a card through the queue.
EVGA no longer sells graphics cards, and I’m feeling the sting of that loss more than ever now. But its absence means there’s room for any hardware company to step up and offer an alternative to the misery we’ve come to expect from trying to build a PC over the last half-decade.
If anyone’s going to do it, though, I hope they hurry up—I’d really like to buy an RX 9070 XT before AI datacenters finish cooking the planet.
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If you’ve missed out on the launches of the RTX 5090, then the RTX 5080, then the RTX 5070 Ti, and then the RTX 5070, the RTX 5060 might be your last chance, as signs point to it launching very soon.
As pointed out by VideoCardz, and attributed to ‘the most recent whispers’, Nvidia is reportedly eyeing up an announcement date of March 13, next Thursday. This same report suggests that we will not only get the RTX 5060 card but also the RTX 5060 Ti cards in both a 16 GB and 8 GB variant in April.
Linked to this, the only leak we can currently verify is from Zed Wang, who previously accurately leaked the launch of the 16 GB RTX 4060 Ti back in 2023. In a tweet posted this week, they said
“The RTX 5060 family will be released in about 10 days but will be on the shelf a month later.”
Late last month, the 16 GB variant of the RTX 5060 Ti was rumored to launch at the end of March, so if this Wang’s rumors proves to be true, the previous one may have guessed a little early. Both versions of the 5060 Ti card are said to have a 180 W TGP, and we don’t yet have a price on any of these three cards.
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Interestingly, both 5060 Ti cards reportedly having the same TGP is markedly different from the 160 W v 165 W TGP of the 8 GB and 16 GB variant of the RTX 4060 Ti, respectively.
The previous report suggested the 16 GB version of the RTX 5060 Ti would arrive a little earlier, and the 16 GB model will presumably be more expensive, so this could make for an incentive for consumers to buy the more expensive card. We don’t yet have a more specific date on the RTX 5060 family launch, but they are all expected to be on shelves in April.
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Whether or not potential customers will actually get their hands on them is still to be seen, and if it’s anything like the other 50 series launches, you will have to be very lucky to sport one in your rig anytime soon.
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In what we can all agree is a sensible, reasonable decision, a man going by the name Captain Steel has made a fully transforming Switch Axe straight out of Monster Hunter, complete with “elemental charge” that shoots a blast of flame. It’s just what you need to round off a week of Monster Hunter Wilds fever.
Captain Steel’s build is made from, mostly, a lot of 3D printed plastic, but has all manner of mechanisms to let it articulate, wheel, and lock into its various forms as sword and axe.
The most impressive part, of course, is that it shoots fire. It’s 90% of the way to what you need to go dragon hunting, except for how the 10% is that it needs to be made of steel and dragon parts.
For the curious, this is a Teostra Switch Axe, made from hunting everyone’s favorite fire-breathing draconic lion that, yes, is a pun on toaster. Because it breathes fire.
Captain Steel says that the most difficult part of the build was, of course, the faux-elemental ZSD phials that let it spit fire.
“I did go through 5 iterations of the ZSD phial system—we don’t talk about what happened to Version 4,” he said on Reddit.
Seeing as it involved pressurized fuel and fire, I think we can all guess what happened to Version 4.
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You can watch a pretty complete breakdown of the building of the Switch Axe on YouTube. Spoiler: Captain Steel’s conclusion is that the Switch Axe is a deeply impractical weapon for normal people who don’t use their superhuman strength to go monster hunting.
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I am not, on the whole, pro-Discord. I don’t like that it has supplanted easily searchable forums. I don’t like that so many mods now ask me to keep up with them via the service rather than a GitHub or Nexus Mods page. I don’t like that the process of joining a new server requires wrestling the whole thing into usability by painstakingly unfollowing and muting channels.
Oh, and I really don’t like that I can’t set Stages to play in speaker mode on mobile—I can only listen to them like a phone call (alright, this one is a bit me-specific).
But hey, it could be worse, and maybe it’s about to be, because the New York Times reports that Discord head honchos have been meeting with investment bankers to talk about an initial public offering (IPO) as soon as this year.
Back in 2021, quoth the NYT, Discord was valued at around $15 billion, which is just the kind of number to make company bosses start slavering at the potential lucre that’d come from putting it on the stock market.
There is some reason to hope. The NYT’s anonymous sources stressed that the talks between Discord and the bankers—whom I’ve elected to imagine as the porcine guy in a top hat from Stachka—are just exploratory for the moment, and any IPO inclinations among Discord brass could still change. Likewise, a Discord spokesperson told the NYT it had no comment as to whether it is or isn’t considering an IPO.
At press time this is how I was imagining Discord’s executives. (Image credit: Jonathan Kitchen via Getty Images)
But I gotta be honest, folks, I find it hard to imagine a corporation choosing not to take a big ol’ cash injection once it’s scented blood on the wind.
The issue, of course, is that once Discord is subject to the short-term whims of a board of investors whose only interest is making the lines on the charts go up as quickly as possible, it quickly becomes prone to the process of enshittification—prioritising shareholder demands over user experience and quickly degrading the quality of the overall service.
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Am I cynical? Yes. I stress this is all conjecture on my part. Maybe Discord will get a stock market ticker but remain the service we know and… tolerate, or maybe the execs will decide that, actually, they’re not up for this IPO thing at all. But all hitherto existing history in the games industry and, hell, capitalism as a whole has me wearily preparing to pick up sticks from Discord and move onto a new thing once the enshittification proves too much.
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