{"id":13496,"date":"2018-02-22T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/314938"},"modified":"2018-02-22T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:39:00","slug":"discord-expands-verified-server-program-to-esports-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/22\/discord-expands-verified-server-program-to-esports-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Discord expands verified server program to eSports teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/discordapp\/status\/966753065960263680\">Discord announced today<\/a> that it will be expanding\u00a0its verified server program to include eSports teams and organizations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Verified servers are currently used by groups like game developers and publishers\u00a0to help foster relationships with its online communities.<\/p>\n<p>Along with relaying information in real-time,\u00a0perks include custom server branding and a verified badge next to the sever name.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newest additions to the verified server program include\u00a0over &#8220;20 eSports\u00a0teams and organizations, including almost every team from the <em>Overwatch<\/em> League,&#8221; according to a\u00a0press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems the goal is to share with fans official player updates and information, as well as the ability to discuss\u00a0upcoming matches or answer questions on an official hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discord announced today that it will be expanding\u00a0its verified server program to include eSports teams and organizations.\u00a0 Verified servers are currently used by groups like game developers and publishers\u00a0to help foster relationships with its online communities. Along with relaying information in real-time,\u00a0perks include custom server branding and a verified badge next to the sever name.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}