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Ventrilo is a Trademark of Flagship Industries, Inc. To see what's new in version 4. They they talk about where they've been, what they've been up to, and what took them so long to come back. In the Discord era it seems like our organic and digital lives are merged in constant symbiosis, but I remember never having a good policy of keeping track of the friends and comrades I met online during the mids, after they inevitably hung up their keyboard after a firstborn child, or a new job, or an unshakeable case of burnout.
I knew all my best guildmates solely by their Gnomish and Dwarven names, and I've long given up any hope of reclaiming those connections from the deep. Cundiff, on the other hand, leaves the light on, so that no matter what's going on in your life, an IP address full of people you used to play Modern Warfare with will be in your back pocket.
I think we all have days where that sounds like the best possible therapy. Not leave to go to different servers, but just leave in general when life gets in the way. But sometimes, on a weekend night, someone from the past will pop in. Sometimes I don't even remember their name, but I hear their voice and I'll be like, 'Oh shit, it's been a long time, how are you doing man?
I've had some of the most intimate conversations of my life on TeamSpeak. It's because you get all these people from all around the country, all around the world, and you know they don't know anything about your personal life, and you feel more open to talk to them about whatever. I think that's my biggest fear about going to a different server, because people remember their server, and there's a chance they'll come back. If we totally transition to Discord, we'll lose the address that people always return to to see old friends.
Mostly you'll find a ton of abandoned servers, which nonetheless remain untethered in cyberspace. Obviously, not everyone is wired like Cundiff and Brown. There's not a whole lot of backend set-up," he says.
It's just a lightweight client we like to use, and since it's mostly just voice and links, it minimizes the amount of junk. I've used Vent, TeamSpeak, and Discord—which populate a lot of data. If you want a simple interface, Mumble still works better than anything else.
Still, Baggert is able to get plenty sentimental when he talks about his channel. As his friends have dispersed across the country, his Mumble has become a way of life. When they're not organizing Destiny 2 strikes, they're kicking back on a Friday night and playing tunes over the microphone.
It's become a separate home for people. It's the closest we can get to us all sitting in a room together," he explains. I don't think there's a more succinct argument for the sanctity of voice chat than that. To be clear, you don't have to foster a decade-long kinship over the internet to jump on VoIP right now. There are plenty of public Ventrilo and Teamspeak servers, and you can browse them much in the way you can with Discord hubs today.
GameTracker, the primary bazaar for aimless LFGing gamers, is open and active and full of randomly sorted voice servers, and the catalog looks to be untouched since the late-aughties.
I popped into one called VANtrilo, which was populated exclusively by about four friends. Naturally, they told me they "very rarely" have anyone enter the channel that they don't know.
Other channels are more utilitarian in nature; I found meeting places for Russian and Dutch clans, as well as an Oceanic public square. Mostly, though, you'll find a ton of abandoned servers, which nonetheless remain untethered in cyberspace. Connecting to them is particularly surreal. There is no loneliness quite like an empty World of Tanks room.
It doesn't give you a lot of hope for the future of the old ways. Like IRC, they'll continue to exist, but fortune favors the new. Discord is continuing to grow, branching out into selling games, and while it might not be the de facto voice client forever, it's hard to believe TeamSpeak 5 will offer any kind of grand resurgence.
Ventrilo also pushed out a 4. After spending time in those old Vents and TeamSpeak servers, though, it's hard to be sad that those days are gone. Change doesn't signal the erasure of the games culture we knew and loved. I promise you, it's all still happening. There are millions of teens on Discord right now, and they're all falling in love with their PC, and the people who live within it, just as we did. Yes, the means are slightly different—they don't have to memorize any IP addresses—but the memories will be the same, even if it's easier now to torment a crosstown clan's server.
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