It felt like Higby lost control once Gamepass started getting popular. He did great work getting the Xbox series launched but dropped the ball on the ‘both systems need to run the same.’ Concept.

But once gamepass started raising prices and gutting itself into different tiers on both systems and they went hard into acquisitions I was done.

She uses the same CEO speak of our team “family” will bring it back trying to insert herself into the group but when it goes to shot it’ll be the workers fault not hers as it is with any Corperate drone put in to place. I expect more downward spiral and studio closures from them. I left the ecosystem some time ago with the writing on the wall.

The Guillemots would sooner take the company to the grave with them while they chase what they have been rather than try to improve what they could be.

In my opinion UBISoft would be better being done with anything Guillemot at this point. They’re just a slow poison on the brand image.

TeamSpeak 6 maybe. Don’t know where they’re up to on it at the moment kinda lost the thread a while ago.

Brief lookup seems things are still selfhosted: https://github.com/teamspeak/teamspeak6-server

I don’t know how often its updated though all things considered. I’ve been out of the ‘clans’ games for sometime and just easing myself back into things from those rose tinted glory days of Blueyonder Gaming, Barrysworld and Gamespy shenanigans.

First ever live voice over IP I used was Roger Wilco where I met the misses and spent the current 30 years messing around. Roger Wilco(Bought out by Gamespy), Ventrillo, mumble, ICQ, TS, TS3, Discord seems like we’re coming full circle again 🥲. Ah the nostalgia.

“Profit off the free contributions to inflate shareholder value” is about the gist of it from what was summarized. Might hold off checking this out if that’s the case.