Jump to content

Jak

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    1,792

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Jak

  1. Posted

    Good update. I’ll absolutely be donating as promised previously. On that front, how about setting up something like a patreon? Just a passing thought, not looking for a discussion on that in this thread. It’ll definitely make it easier for someone as forgetful as me to donate regularly.

     

    Also, Tower Unite server anyone?

     

     

  5. Posted

    4 hours ago, Skeff said:

    @Jak I agree, this feels a lot like brexit only this time project fear is winning.

     

    Outbreak players are currently split between various official and unofficial platforms. Discord will remove the need for all these and bring everyone together. When the community is all together we can focus on creating the kind of community that is open to playing games with each other as opposed to closed off subgroups.

     All the difference Whatsapp chats will no longer be required because you can just use the discord mobile app.
    People use WhatsApp to talk to specific people/groups of people privately outside of a community platform, this will not stop. People also use WhatsApp when they're out and about because it's better for text/media chat than Discord and it doesn't require downloading another app.

     The forums shoutbox will no longer be required because discord has multiple text chat channels.
    Who uses the shoutbox? It's not required now. Nobody gives a shit about it. Get rid of it, who cares.

    The forums will no longer be required because discord allows for real time chat. I'm sure the forums can be repurposed for announcements and official communication later on.
    So you want to get rid of the forums? Why? And why would anyone go on here to look for announcements if that's all it becomes? I wouldn't, that's for sure. I come here for slower, more permanent conversation.

    Teamspeak will no longer be required because discord provides voice chats for players to talk to each other.
    Discord voice channels are shit, it's not built for voice chat. TS is still the better platform for voip because of the way text and voice channels are integrated. There were tests into trying to get Discord to work the same way as TS and it wasn't possible. Why try and copy something when it's already been built and works?

    Players will no longer have to move through voice channels to ask players to join their games. Discord provides global chats for players to announce they're looking for people to play games with.
    Global chat is specifically disabled in TS by the Outbreak admin team. Why, I don't know, but people having to move through channels is nothing to do with TS, it's an on-purpose admin decision. Would take less than one minute to remedy that.

    Players that cannot join voice channels are no longer excluded from the fun because discord doesn't require players to join voice channels in order to join the chat.
    That's one of the basis for people wanting to stay on TS. Nobody wants to read a load of text while they're playing games, they want to be able to speak to people. You wouldn't know this because you never come on TS.

    Go again, why change to Discord?

×
×
  • Create New...