Communities before discord were forums. No fucking community was built around teamspeak or vent. They had them, but they were built around forums or the in game systems of various MMOs.
MMOs use to be actual glorified IRC and chat rooms that just happened to have a game attached. That was the entire point.
Forums were the bread and butter, that’s were you got the voice coms info.
At best you have tiny friend groups that only hung out in a voice coms. But the actual community was NOT ts3 or vent
For large scale communities, sure. But I knew many a small indie game or group who’s sole community was teamspeak in the day. It may have not been the mainstream way for people to engage in communities but they definitely did exist in that capacity for some groups.
Communities before discord were forums. No fucking community was built around teamspeak or vent. They had them, but they were built around forums or the in game systems of various MMOs.
MMOs use to be actual glorified IRC and chat rooms that just happened to have a game attached. That was the entire point.
Forums were the bread and butter, that’s were you got the voice coms info.
At best you have tiny friend groups that only hung out in a voice coms. But the actual community was NOT ts3 or vent
For large scale communities, sure. But I knew many a small indie game or group who’s sole community was teamspeak in the day. It may have not been the mainstream way for people to engage in communities but they definitely did exist in that capacity for some groups.