TeamSpeak gonna make a comeback with TS5? Also here comes Steam!

[divito]

I miss Ventrilo.

[WolfDeville]

The cheesy marketing tells me they have nothing special to offer.

[Ryujin2003]

On 6/12/2018 at 2:59 PM, RARDO said:

Edit:

 

 it seems Valve have also jumped on the bandwagon, with Steam Chat (beta) taking everything that is good with discord and merging it with their chat.  some parts are really similar...Possible partnership going on? but then again Valve don't do sharing.

Hate to say it, but with all of the time and effort into setting up Discord and scripting bots, I'm not switching platforms unless I'm either paid or Discord disappears over night, like an alcoholic with gambling debt owed to the Russian Mafia.

[monarchco]

On 7/5/2018 at 10:45 AM, Fetzie said:

Yeah, I don't discuss or write anything on discord that I wouldn't want passed on to third parties. If a company is willing to give me something for free and their motivation isn't completely transparent, then I assume that they are intending on monetizing me.

 

Teamspeak has the very large advantage of being able to be self-hosted, putting yourself in charge of the data. When I ran my Teamspeak server, I knew who had access to the information. With discord you have to trust a company (and an American company at that) to not attempt to make a profit from your data.

Good rule of thumb...

 

If a company is giving stuff for free, and not actively trying to convert you(e.g. World of Tanks constantly trying to convert free users into paying users), then they're making money other ways. Either through ads(This is the case with the not free, but very cheap Amazon fire tablets), or by selling info to a company that'll serve you ads, use your data for all sorts of other things, such as market research(what a certain population does and doesn't respond to for products & marketing), or worse sold to a government like CHIINAH(Don't go filming anything top secret US govt with a dji drone)

[Syntaxvgm]

On 6/12/2018 at 4:34 PM, Crosseyed Sniper said:

I've used Skype for many years and never had any issues with it. I think it's a great chat program. I've also used TS in the past, and it too seemed to work fine. Never used Discord, so I cannot comment on it.

I use it for work. It wont even send chat messages for hours at a time,then claim you received it when it was sent, leading to many arguments. 

Also, it sucks in every way possible, that's just one little portion of the problems. 

[Okjoek]

 

Teamspeak be like:

 

[Guest]

Haha stupid teamspeak no one uses you. 

[RARDO]

https://www.teamspeak.com/en/downloads#ts5

TS have now opened up beta signups for TS5.

[The Benjamins]

On 7/7/2018 at 2:18 PM, RorzNZ said:

Haha stupid teamspeak no one uses you. 

I have been using it for over 10 years, and I still do.

 

1 hour ago, RARDO said:

https://www.teamspeak.com/en/downloads#ts5

TS have now opened up beta signups for TS5.

Thanks going to sign up.

[Hyperwerk]

On 6/13/2018 at 3:15 PM, Alexp10v2 said:

Personally, I prefer TS to Discord.
Yes, it's not free 

 

But it is for private users?  TS literally hands out licenses if you can prove its non-profit. You can host the server yourself, hell it can even be ran on a Rasberry pi!  Win/Win! 

Discord is a shady AF company.  Just google Jason Citron (Discord CEO) and OpenFeint (previous company) and it should be enough if you care about privacy.