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 is no doubt that countless Final Fantasy XIV Discord servers exist for various reasons, whether they are for specific game servers or more personal reasons. It turns out that Discord co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy is no different than a Final Fantasy Discord user, 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 his 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 pointed out that he is also a loyal player of Final Fantasy 14 and even took 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 thousands of threads In the message. Thanks, Final Fantasy!
