As far as the VIOP (which isn't really the point of the thread) Teamspeak, Vent and mumble are really double-edged swords. They are slick COm programs that continue use even if the game client drops you, as a 3rd party program a game company need not spend/hire/licence Voice software internally.

And you can keep your ears free of D***bags, arsehats and racist 14-year olds.

The downside being the lack of Ingame voice is you never really chat with a pickup group, random people without passing out your Voice server info, they set it up etc. (add troubleshooting for the computer inept)

And with cross-platform games that are slowly becoming more prevelent, your ending up with the PC users who TS/Vent/Mumble, and the ps3 users who Btooth further seperating the comunity, which integrated voice helps with.

Still holding out for a Game company to work WITH a software provider like TS of Vent to make that very program accessable and plug in worthy to the game client itself. So you could /Voice invite Don Juan

and it would connect him to your Vent server. One can dream