My problem here is that no approximate time frame can be given once again. I’ve been a loyal supporter of the software since TeamSpeak 2 and jumped on board with TS 5 as soon as possible. However, this whole “we’re bringing out a new goodie but can’t say anything about the other important things” is really concerning. Screenshare was teased for three years, and for two years in a row, Twitter posts claimed, “this is the year of screenshare,” and in the third year, it finally came with the release of TS 6.
This direct statement, “yes, you’ll get your server files, but we absolutely can’t say anything about an approximate ETA,” just fuels the fear that we’ll once again be left out in the rain for years without real status updates—something that, unfortunately, has already happened far too often in recent years.
Yeah I would agree that I have no high hopes until I see it happen, I do hope it happens but when that will happen is in my eyes based on TS5 History rated as: Vapourware
I have also been through TS2 and still using TS3, so based on that I do know what wonders they can actually do
I know they are a small team, but transparency is not their force - RoadMaps could do much
Set an expected date without promise, will still do a lot
I have been burned so many times telling friends that it will happen soon – So I will not do much until I see the server files running on my machine
I asked the support and they said that it’s already clear that TS3 licenses won’t work for TS6 servers. We’re not renewing, since we can’t be expected to renew something that might immediately become obsolete during a surprise update, loosing a lot of money just because TeamSpeak cannot correctly communicate what is actually going on.
We need the server component and we need it yesterday. Normal users have already started making fun of the update, since most new features won’t work on servers.
I expected that, if it’s gonna work good and server sided screenshare, I don’t see a single problem in it. You have to understand that TeamSpeak is a company as all others, they have 0 profit if you self-host and use their programs.
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 didn’t 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.
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
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?
I’m 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 it’s 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 size… The ability to form communities via text-only without an actual limitation is incomparable between the two platforms and teamspeak unfortunately doesn’t compete. I actively WANT to pay teamspeak money for a subscription as a ‘power user’, but I can’t justify the current pricing structure, it makes absolutely zero sense for communities primarily using text. I’d 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 we’re headed with teamspeak, because I’d 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, it’s easier to build a community on IRC in 2025 than it is on teamspeak because of the arbitrary limitations
As many people say, if the product is free, you are the product. Discord can’t make money out of nowhere and just let you use their servers for free, indefinitely. And Nitro can’t possibly cover all the costs for all free users. So, they are selling data. That doesn’t happen on TeamSpeak, at least the self-hosted version. And the price of privacy in modern world is high. In this instance, it’s 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.
That’s my opinion on the situation.
Decentralized platforms like teamspeak can’t be too closely compared to heavily centralized ones like discord due to the fundamental differences and correlation certainly isn’t causation especially when it comes to “enshittification” (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?
There’s 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, I’ll happily hear an “I told you so”
