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I have not seen a massivecraft discord, and while tumbling around the forums I found a post that was logistic. Teamspeak costs money to run and is very limited and hard to easily moderate at times. Skype is laggy and just awful, let's be honest.
Discord is free, pretty decent quality and not laggy, has the ability to run bots at all time to help players or play music etc. (You can do a LOT with these bots, like instant faction ranking/ job giving. You can set a bot to log into massive and allocate a rank to a player, example, laborer, lumber jack, etc.)
Discord also allows bot moderation, prevention of links posted, videos, files, etc. players are also able to be far more easily moderated. There are also multiple channels allowed per discord for free so massive won't pay any fees. Massive can recruit moderators for the discord or double up staff to moderate the discord.

It sounds good to me, however I understand massive is low on staff currently, but it is a decent future idea. Please leave your comments and opinions below, I appreciate responses!
 
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I think its pretty widely agreed Discord is better, but a lot of people dont want to try something new...

Funnily enough Discord actually made a video for those people :P

 
It's a good idea but in effect it just wouldn't work, it would actually do more damage than benefit. Most people are either persistent on using TeamSpeak or Discord. Ive personally used both and have both but find myself more to Discord ever since I've started using it. Many people dislike Discord or dislike it for the fact that they haven't actually tried it. If Massive were to keep their TeamSpeak up as well as having a Discord, besides the already noted shortage of staff to be able to moderate it, it would effectively divide the community. Some players may migrate over but the lovers of TS will stay and refuse to move really. There will be much less social interaction within the community.

On the other hand, if Massive were to shut down the TeamSpeak and create a Discord, people again will split. Some may refuse to even go while others know of already existing TeamSpeaks that belong to other members of Massive. They would start migrating to the TeamSpeaks of those they know rather then go to Discord. People dislike change especially if it was to be forced through shutting down the TeamSpeak.

It would be nearly impossible to run both or switch to only Discord with those complications occurring. People that like Discord that much have already made their own servers there and can invite friends and such. If they really want it, they have already made their own server.
 
Just because its the way its always been done, is not a good reason to keep doing something.

It makes no sense to not switch to something better just because some people are unwilling to try something new.
 
Zacatero said:
Just because its the way its always been done, is not a good reason to keep doing something.

It makes no sense to not switch to something better just because some people are unwilling to try something new.
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It will completely hinder the communities interactions. People will split and connections will quickly be lost. Discord is so easy and continent that people can make their own servers if they really wanted it that bad and many already have.
 
We tried Discord once in a staff meeting and didn't like the sound quality loss. Aside from that other issues are pointed out above, we also don't like the idea of splitting the community. That being said, I'll put it up for discussion in the next meeting whether we should just make one for the sake ensuring that we have control over it, to avoid an unofficially sanctioned Discord turning into a shitstorm.
 
MonMarty said:
We tried Discord once in a staff meeting and didn't like the sound quality loss. Aside from that other issues are pointed out above, we also don't like the idea of splitting the community. That being said, I'll put it up for discussion in the next meeting whether we should just make one for the sake ensuring that we have control over it, to avoid an unofficially sanctioned Discord turning into a shitstorm.
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Yeah it does have some sound quality problems. That would be pretty cool, thank you.
 
I looked into Discord this afternoon, I found the following problems:
  • It does not support temporary channel creation. As such, in order to create "private channels" we would need to have a staff member manually create ranks and channels for them whenever players request them.
  • One cannot create sub-channels, so functionally speaking players lose the ability to create sub-channels of their own channels.
Running a Discord would require a large investment of manpower, and even then we would still lose critical functionality which Teamspeak has and Discord simply does not offer. I'm trying to wrap my head around why so many players are switching over to an inferior voice communication software.

Custom emoji's are really not that much of a benefit when you lose core service features.
 
MonMarty said:
would still lose critical functionality which Teamspeak has and Discord simply does not offer. I'm trying to wrap my head around why so many players are switching over to an inferior voice communication software.
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Because its worth that sacrifice in order to have text and voice together
 
Zacatero said:
Not the same. That's not text chatting like discord or skype. On ts if somebody isnt there would you type a message for them for when they get on? No cuz it goes away.
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That's not a sufficient enough reason to switch over though. There is always /mail in game.
 
Zacatero said:
I don't think you understand what text chatting is
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Keep this conversation for arguing the IDEA and not insulting people....

The text chat feature for discord is meh. There are so many better options. Simply email works too. It's not worth switching everything over just for text chat. Besides, the above reasoning from a moderator makes sense anyways.

Don't get me wrong, I love discord. Maybe more than ts. For the server however, it just isn't practical.
 
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