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by ronsor 647 days ago
No, because half their premium features are dependent on them controlling the client. Even excluding relatively new things like client theming, a custom client could enable custom emojis everywhere, or make it easy to offload storage to another site to avoid paying for nitro. As long as a service is free(-to-play), there will always be a somewhat adversarial relationship between the user and the company.
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Ah yes, the selling of emojis and simple file storage.

I miss the GameSurge IRC and caleague with Mumble days.

What do you want them to sell? Personally I’m glad the paid features are trivial rather than core functionality.