EA has added help for a Discord characteristic referred to as Wealthy Presence, which permits PC players to hyperlink their accounts on each platforms to allow them to share extra in-depth data with buddies.
As soon as the accounts have been linked, Wealthy Presence “permits buddies to know what sport you’re enjoying on the EA app, which sport mode you’re in, how lengthy you’ve been enjoying, and whether or not or not you’re able to companion up for one thing completely different,” EA says in its announcement.
The corporate says Discord was beforehand restricted to displaying what sport somebody was enjoying and for the way lengthy they’d been enjoying it. That data is beneficial, however the further particulars supplied by Wealthy Presence could make it simpler to seek out somebody to play video games with for some time.
“I’m actually excited that the EA app now gives a extra related expertise,” EA Product Supervisor Theo Mascardo mentioned in a press release. “Our group is stuffed with avid Discord customers, and we sit up for our gamers having the ability to get pleasure from the advantages Wealthy Presence has to supply.”
EA says it can immediate its customers to hyperlink their Discord accounts the following time they register. The combination can be enabled by going to Settings > My Account > Related Accounts within the EA app after which authorizing the connection between accounts inside Discord’s consumer.
Wealthy Presence is not unique to EA, neither is it restricted to giant publishers. Discord says “it solely takes a couple of days of labor utilizing our open supply Wealthy Presence SDK for C, C++, Unity, or Unreal” so as to add help for the characteristic to a sport. The corporate’s docs go into extra element.