2) Have you even wondered why games with full voiced protagonist have only few dialogue options to pick ... but games with muted protagonist have double / triple / and sometimes even quadruple as much? Answer is simple: Money. Voicing characters if often one of most expensive process. :-/
I certainly hope they dont go this way, for several reasons that was mentioned in other topics ... but mainly money (better spend elsewhere) and imersion (that is kinda long topic). -_-
I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings.

Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are!