How do they make 0 profit, do we download licenses from the sky ?
If we buy a license for a program, the company is responsible for keeping that program up to date, it is completely selfish to create a new license model for a new update.
I didnāt point at TeamSpeak 3 license, wanted to say that it would be optimistic that we could host for free. I think we should wait what will be pricing & functionality limitations by specific license.
If there will be subscription programs for TeamSpeak usage, I expect to deliver mobile apps and other funcionality in a short time. Others programs provides us all that funcionalities.
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Was nothing said about whether there will be an option to change at a price that depends on the remaining time, like in any software that can be upgraded? @SYOX
regards,
Flosing
Hello, i have only one question.
I was loan a private server to communicate with my gamefriends.
But what a pity, on my serv still no screensharing properties.
When will be update to private servers, how long to wait?
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Iām really curious on how teamspeak is planning on monetizing this because the main reason teamspeak is dead right now is because discord as a free experience is just BETTER, even in light of self-hosting and etc and itās purely because on discord you can easily have thousands of users join servers and receive notifications for communities using text chat, having a limit of 32 people connected on the current self-hosted free plan is frankly terrible for building communities around, 32 people connected to voice at any one time? sure okay see that as a valid place for monetisation, but the current setup for teamspeak makes it impossible for me to convince anybody to use it over discord, even since discord limited users to 5mb max file sizeā¦ The ability to form communities via text-only without an actual limitation is incomparable between the two platforms and teamspeak unfortunately doesnāt compete. I actively WANT to pay teamspeak money for a subscription as a āpower userā, but I canāt justify the current pricing structure, it makes absolutely zero sense for communities primarily using text. Iād even pay a yearly license or go for a larger one-time payment for lifetime licensing for self-hosting without many limitations.
tl;dr: It would be great if there was some clarification on monetisation going forward and where weāre headed with teamspeak, because Iād love nothing more than to terminate any relationship with discord or alternatives going forward if teamspeak is planning on competing in the space.
*edit: also for comparison, itās easier to build a community on IRC in 2025 than it is on teamspeak because of the arbitrary limitations
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It was said, that it canāt be upgraded or that there are no plans or pricing for that yet. 
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As many people say, if the product is free, you are the product. Discord canāt make money out of nowhere and just let you use their servers for free, indefinitely. And Nitro canāt possibly cover all the costs for all free users. So, they are selling data. That doesnāt happen on TeamSpeak, at least the self-hosted version. And the price of privacy in modern world is high. In this instance, itās limited capabilities. Can the capabilities be broader? I guess they can, but for that TS need more developers, which takes more money, and money almost always make a company do a turn for worse. So in exchange for features we will get more caveats, which is not how I personally see TeamSpeak, so I hope it never comes to that.
Thatās my opinion on the situation.
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Decentralized platforms like teamspeak canāt be too closely compared to heavily centralized ones like discord due to the fundamental differences and correlation certainly isnāt causation especially when it comes to āenshittificationā (Enshittification - Wikipedia), but your view is understood. However I disagree that being transparent about goals(namely monetisation) and adding features is somehow a bad thing here?
Thereās no reason to assume teamspeak would undergo such enshittification just because they increase revenue, in part a reason for that happening in other scenarios is the centralized structuring having to expand whilst maintaining increased profits for shareholders, they essentially become cash recyclers until they eventually implode from not being profitable enough and setting unsustainable monopolistic goals. If the day ever comes teamspeak goes 180, becomes centralized and switches to being exclusively a locked down electron app, Iāll happily hear an āI told you soā 
I mainly built my thought process on the fact that TS GmbH is a small company, so they would need either a very patient investor, or they would need to do an IPO, which would mean having target profits and, in that case, āenshittificationā is going to happen no matter what.
Hi everyone,
Do we have any news of any sort on if and when the TS6 server files for self hosting will be available?
I completely understand that TS6 is still in beta and in development and that a stable version cannot be provided with the flick of a hand. But can we please get at least any update on a vague time window? Will we be waiting for one more month? Or three more decades? Can we narrow it down just a BIT?
I also very much understand the monetary aspect and that the TS hosted communities must have been a massive income boost for TS. Iām willing to pay for a (perpetual) license if that is, what is needed. 100$ seems fair, compared to other software nowadays.
Can we please get any feedback whatsoever?
Currently there isnāt any information I can provide. Once we have information to share weāll make an announcement.
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discord gives me too many bugs of all kinds and I just created a teamspeak server. but I still canāt figure out how to share my screen. can someone give me directions please.
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The TS6 server files that are required to utilize screen share are available for self hosting.
This will be coming out for users to self host in the near future, however there are other ways to try it out.
They have are now released and can be downloaded to self hosting:
https://hub.docker.com/r/teamspeaksystems/teamspeak6-server
You can currently use screen share via Peer-to-Peer in Group & Private Chats, and also on our Official Community Servers which you can find on the dashboard in the new client.
Another option is to host a TeamSpeak Community, which is our hosted solution.
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thank you for your response
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Hello. Where i can find instructions for install Teamspeak 6 Server on Debian11? For not pro users please)
There are no files to install yet.
TeamSpeak 6 Server Files
- We have heard many concerns about self-hosting and whether we will move away from it with the introduction of Communities. We can assure everyone that this is not the case. Self-hosting is a core feature of TeamSpeak, and our intention is to provide the full TS6 experience, which includes screen-sharing, in the near future. We are still fine-tuning and actively working on the TS6 Server to ensure the best possible experience for everyone. We appreciate your patience as we prepare the server files for release.
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This does not seem to be true. There is no option anywhere to start a screen share unless you are on a TS6 Server.
Iām in a private chat with someone and we can not find an option to screen share.
It is the private chat over myTS and not the server itself. It is located in the left sidebar.
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