Wow, teamspeak has been a staple forever in the voice chat world. I'm surprised they would push people away with a change like that.
There's surprisingly little uproar. It looks like they want to do their own hosting and that they'll be keeping some of their larger authorized reseller, but all the little hosts are being pushed out. There won't be any more inexpensive TS servers offered by third parties.
That's my understanding, at any rate. I don't actually game, or even make a habit out of chatting with people.
I've never been much for multiplayer gaming so I haven't used team speak but if what you say is correct, this will be an interesting shift in online multiplayer gaming and I'd bet you will see some company step up and fill the void.
I still have a broken creativity bone.
Can I reference you by name in an article? It will be positive. I'm still not sure I'll write it, but I'm nearing an hour late and nothing seems to be coming out of my fingers.
It's mostly (from what I gather) going to impact hosting companies who were able to get a license that let them sell TS servers at low cost.
Basically, they entirely eliminated the ATHP (Authorized TeamSpeak Hosting Providers) license. To host it, or provide hosting for it, now requires you to pay per user and is pretty expensive. I've surmised that it's due to them wanting to make more money by being the major/only company to offer hosting for it.
The folks are also pretty sure that some of the larger ATHP companies will be grandfathered in and allowed to continue to resell.
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