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In a similar note, a group of friends of mine (10+ years) all use TeamSpeak to communicate regularly, namely when we are playing video games.

We have Slack, etc - but hearing a regular voice attached to someone really does program the brain different, at least it feels that way to me.

Same here, whether we are actually playing any game or just hanging out and chatting about whatever.

Text doesn't convey as much information and the synchronous aspect makes it much more interesting.

We're a Mumble crew though but that's down to personal preference more than anything else.