People already gift on Discord every day and with Social Commerce, that now extends to in-game items. In the Marvel Rivals rollout, 41% of purchases were gifts, and 25% of those buying gifts had either never played or had stopped playing. They showed up not as existing players, but because someone they care about added a new skin to their Wishlist or shared excitement for an upcoming item with their friends. With Discord Social Commerce, items live across your official server's Game Shop, DMs, voice channels, and Wishlists on player profiles. When a player wants to gift a skin to a friend mid-conversation, they just do it, no app switching, no leaving the chat. For you, this is incremental and complementary to your existing shop: it reaches people and moments your in-game store never would.
At GDC, we announced we're opening Discord Social Commerce to a limited group of partners and expanding from there. If you're interested, reach out to our team directly.
Players can customize their profile, and now you can too!Unlock the ability to customize your game's profile with cover art screenshots, and social links, plus verify your server with a special checkmark when you claim your game in the Developer Portal. It’s the perfect way to hype upcoming content and ensure players always know where to find your official community. Currently limited to playable Steam games only.
We're investing in the developer experience so that integrating with Discord is as straightforward as possible, and that means building for how you actually work today. So we've completely overhauled the developer documentation.
The new docs are easier to navigate and designed around how developers build. We've also made them LLM-native with support for LLMs.txt and MCP, so your AI-powered dev tools can interface with our documentation directly. No more copy-pasting reference pages or hoping your coding assistant has the right context.
Stay up-to-date with our latest developer platform announcements and API changes by following the change log.
Lastly, for those who tl;dr, we’ve embedded some helpful Dev Bytes tutorial videos covering key topics.
Marvel Rivals executed a comprehensive Discord strategy: they established a vibrant official Discord community, successfully attracted new players through Quest campaigns, and fully leveraged their community's potential by integrating Discord-powered social features such as Account Linking into the game. Marvel Rivals was also the first game to take advantage of Discord Social Commerce—transforming discovery, purchasing, and gifting into a seamless social experience.
Join us on March 31st at 11am PST as we review everything we announced at GDC 2026, and hear our Developer Relations team break down their favorite moments from this year’s festival of gaming.
