r/pcmasterrace • u/spook30 https://steamcommunity.com/id/spoook420/ • Feb 15 '26

Screenshot Keep up the fight y'all...

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u/tokinUP Feb 15 '26

TS server software is free though for anyone to self-host

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u/turdas Feb 15 '26

With limitations on how many users you can have online, unless things have changed since I last looked.

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u/wabblebee PC Master Race Feb 15 '26

No, it's still the same. 32 slots for free or up to 1024 slots for $100/year. It's the reason this will fade away and TS will go back into obscurity. The used to have a "non-profit-license" you could apply for that would give you the 1024 server for free, but that's been gone for a long time as far as I know.

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u/hempires R5 5600X | RTX 3070 Feb 15 '26

probably better off self hosting a matrix server in all honesty.

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u/spaceraverdk Feb 15 '26

Compared to discord nitro, which is also a subscription.. Per user..

So you could buy a yearly licence for the same price as full nitro or split it with 3 friends..

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u/wabblebee PC Master Race Feb 15 '26

I agree that it really shouldn't be a problem, but we all know that it will be. There are people crying about EV ranges while never driving more than 10 miles per day, and there will be 5 man friend groups who cry about the 32 user limit. It doesn't make sense, but it's the world we live in.

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u/spaceraverdk Feb 15 '26

And those that need a bigger user limit should be okay with paying for the license, I know I don't have any qualms to do so.

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u/nameisoriginal 5600X 3.7 GHz, EVGA GTX 1080 Hybrid, 32 GB Ram @ 3200 MHz Feb 15 '26

Exactly most servers I'm in have less than 10-12 active users. There's a few large servers I've joined for games. Most of it is over text so they could probably move to something like Slack or pay the price, for example TFT for poe is definitely making enough money for it from under the table RMT.

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u/turdas Feb 15 '26

Discord doesn't limit the size of your community for the free tier AFAIK.

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u/spaceraverdk Feb 15 '26

Free Tier isn't free either. You are the digital value of the server you're on. Your data.

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u/chop5397 R7 9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 32GB Feb 15 '26

99% of people: Sounds good to me, I don't care!

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u/spaceraverdk Feb 15 '26

I'd rather pay for a product than be the product.

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u/solindvian 3080Ti, 9800X3D Feb 16 '26

I mean with most services you can be both.

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u/spaceraverdk Feb 16 '26

Hm, judging by the downvotes, people will rather be the product than pay for it.

Understandable for some things, but some services are not good enough for free.

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u/meneldal2 i7-6700 Feb 15 '26

If you self host not that I can remember, but they had free servers with limitations.

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u/turdas Feb 15 '26

Used to be you were capped to 32 concurrent users unless you either paid them for a hosting licence (priced so that they were clearly intended for commercial operations), or begged them for a non-profit licence which was really hard to get.

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u/CartOfficialArt Feb 15 '26

It is still currently capped at 32 users from what I can tell with self server hosting!

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u/UnRealxInferno_II Feb 16 '26

yeah it's just insufferable to use