Before there was Discord, there was TeamSpeak. I by no means partook in it myself, however I keep in mind my school boyfriend being a die-hard TeamSpeak loyalist earlier than reluctantly leaping ship to the newer, shinier, and crucially extra user-friendly gamer platform.
But TeamSpeak by no means went away, and it appears like 2025 often is the 12 months of its triumphant return. Or on the very least, an excellent try to provide Discord a run for its cash. The TeamSpeak X account has been doing a little fairly cryptic posts because the starting of the 12 months, like “Man I like January, such an incredible month, not saying something goes to occur this January, however wow, it is nice. January btw.”
Vagueposting has now become simply straight-up posting, nevertheless, with TeamSpeak slowly unveiling its new look. In its personal typical TeamSpeak means, after all. The new UI is trying rather a lot friendlier to make use of, placing itself simply shut sufficient to Discord’s that it will be good and acquainted if anybody does find yourself transferring over. It appears like there are group chats, servers, and bookmarks for simple navigation.
A follow-up picture exhibits off somewhat bit extra, with neighborhood servers for a bunch of various video games like Minecraft, Diablo 4, and Overwatch 2. TeamSpeak says the brand new design overhaul will embrace display sharing, digital camera sharing, 1440p streaming, multi-streaming, all in 60 FPS. Oh, and one secret ultimate factor apparently, although we’ll have to attend somewhat longer to search out out what it’s.
I say the revealing has been in TeamSpeak’s personal distinctive means, as a result of anybody who’s adopted the X account is aware of that the corporate is not afraid of throwing a little bit of shade at Discord… just about on a regular basis. It’s been following up every submit with a hyperlink pointing in the direction of Discord’s help web site: One hyperlink on find out how to delete your Discord account, and one other on find out how to cancel your Nitro subscription.
I’m all right here for somewhat little bit of brand-on-brand violence, and actually I hope TeamSpeak manages to throw itself again into the limelight somewhat. Competition is at all times a great factor, and I’ve not precisely been quiet about my rising frustration with Discord and its assortment of pointless options and modifications. But I do marvel how on board people will probably be with the entire ‘paying to run a server’ factor that it has. Unless that is the massive ultimate change that is coming, thoughts you. We’ll have to attend and see.
