I play dota 2 only, and I just type in "im deaf" to the team. I don't bother explaining...
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Try league of legends - you get the best of both worlds! (It's 5v5 but you only communicate with your team via pings/chat)
@Anniz Good idea! Just been asked by friends to join them lately and they obviously know I'm not deaf :D I think it's just hard to explain because outside this forum a lot of people with T still use headphones so everyone wonders what you're going on about