Dear Community, Devs, Forum-hoggers,etc…
Since my first days of Gaming, i was a full time Teamspeak user with TS3 in the old days. Over the years more and more of my friends moved over to Discord… Then after a long time of using both, i finally gave in to Discord sometime in 2018. We later on gave TS3 another chance in 2021 but that only lasted for like 6 months.
I looked into TS5 beta some time ago, and now i just looked into TS6 beta with a friend because of the current data privacy discussions around Discord with all that age verification blahblah.
First i thought “Oh its finally working.” and “ohh you can stream? damn lets try Teamspeak again”. I rly rly hoped you guys got the edge now and can compete with Discord. Over the years my friends and myself included just grew comfy with Discords features like screen-sharing, mobile integration and other seamless features.
I hoped with a working streaming feature i could finally convince to move back to TS with my friends, but then i saw the “ahm hell no”.
Streaming my monitor to just 1 friend casually eats between 20% and 80% of my RTX 4090.
A RTX 4090!!! Sry, but OBS is completely Open-Source and afaik the licencing allow commercial use. And OBS doesnt eat anywhere near the resources. (if im wrong just ignore that part - i could be dumb as hell lol)
This is a dealbreaker by far. For me, and for my friends. As with this, TS6 aint got rly much special going on for it and some features it even lacks compared to TS3.
And seeing how slowly Teamspeak develops, my hopes are low for this once so godly nice Application. Its just dated now, and the features to compete roll out slowly. If they even roll?
I dont want to bash on any Devs, im sure Teamspeak as a company and all the Devs working on the Codebase took a big hit with very many users changing to Discord uppon its release.
Im just like…frustrated.
Frustrated to not have any comparable alternative to Discord.
Frustrated to have to stay using Discord to stay connected with friends.
I hope someday you can overtake Discord. Please… i’ll be waiting.
Cheers
-A long time TS fan from Germany
PS: pls dont take this too serious. Just needed to vent out my frustrations.
EDIT: ah btw. Why the Hell cant i change my Username since over 6 years?!? This basic feature should work lol…