[TwilightWaits]

I'm in the same boat as birdman, sadly. Two years of being in an active WoW raiding guild has sort of spoiled me. Hell, after the guild broke up, one of my RL friends picked up the tab on the vent server for our RL friends to use, so we can game together as a group, and I probably talk to them more on that than I do in real life.

In a way, its nice though. We don't have to worry about people getting around or anything; we're all there already, hanging out, even if its not in person.

Edit: Oh, and for the record...maybe its just me, but being in a voice chat doesn't really ruin my immersion at all. Admittedly, I'm mildly insane (no, really, I'm not kidding), but I've always been able to sort of section things off and function as two people (one real, one virtual) simultaneously. I suppose it comes from years of tabletop, IRC, chat room, and forum RP.