Is Discord now the "killer" voip program?

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Noticing it is gaining more and more popularity.

What is the general concensus?

Is it better than anything before it?

My concern is having zero control with it all being in the "cloud".

Also, how do they plan on actually making money from this?
 
Well it's free, has text chat and allows posting of images in that chat.

Downside is its not physically run by you. Discord went down for a couple of hours yesterday for the servers I was connected to.
 
It's great for people who don't wish to pay for a TS server etc, I find myself using Discord more and more apart from when talking to my old clan as they stick to their TS server due to it being paid until 2021.
 
Discord has been the prefered choice of my gaming friends here for a long long time, I actually prefer it's simplicity to TS3. All I want from a comms program is to be able to chat with friends, either in voice or text, share pics links etc and have many different channels for different games. Discord does all this perfectly and is free, can' argue with any of that.
 
I would agree that voip programs need to evolve.

To be honest, VOIP in games FULL STOP needs to evolve, still feels like in the 90s sometimes relating to ingame voip.

Everyone saying "its free" now, what happens when they want to make money? Adverts played during your gaming session?

Ventrilo is finished as far as I can tell, Teamspeak is stuck in its ways, Mumble is just seen as "not cool" and although I like it, I can see why others do not. The UI for one. Neither are very "Web 2.0" which the majority of users expect nowadays.

The ability to be in control of own services though as a community is important. I would not want this forum to be ran on Facebook for example.
 
Gimpymoo said:
Everyone saying "its free" now, what happens when they want to make money?
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Well then it won't be free. Doesn't really work as an argument to say it might not be free in the future.

Of course they're building a base with free chat but if charges and harassment come in then that's when to make a new decision.
 
My bunch are currently using gamevox, which is ok (the IRC style chat windows are very handy*), but the audio quality seems quite variable and suffers some oddities (I think the codec needs some work).

In game voice comms have improved a bit over the years, but then you're stuck dealing with random idiots and can't use them outside of the game ;) or moan about your random team mate having all the brown activity of a deceased slug (I'm sure some many of the people that played world of tanks must have had help to turn the computer on:p).

*mainly for sharing pictures of cute animals, or Americans being stupid with chainsaws.
 
hilly said:
audio is poor compared to its competitors.

i'll stick to mumble :)
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This ^^^ Use it regularly, Personally prefer TS3 if am honest.

Discord is nice, When they can keep the servers up but the audio is like others have said.
Has improved I have to admit over the last 6 month or so.
 
I use it on a daily basis. its simple, intuitive and so far for me it's the best comms going. I've not experienced poor quality comms and has never been down for me.
 
I just use skype for gaming with my friends, since there is only around 4-5 of us that ever game at once. It can be an annoying program sometimes though
 
I use the ocuk one & voice quality seems fine to me, prefer the text chat over the text options on ts, to me its kind of like having the old iirc & voice comms all in one.
 
Yep, Discord rules at the moment. Evetually, all decent multiplayer games will have decently intergrated audio, making such services irrelevant.
 
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