Originally Posted by Marielle
I'm afraid that the technical difficulties that Mirmi wrote about above in this thread, related to the open/closed flag, will hardly allow the studio to focus on two lines for one Astarion, while they are currently working on bugs, trying to do everything so that patch 7 can fix all the problems in the game. To introduce new expressions, and even a separate line for them, is technically quite time consuming.

I think it's a bit disingenuous to say adding a dialogue flag to keep something that already exists in the game would definitely be too difficult or time consuming, after six months of asking for three entirely new animations to be created and implemented for Tav.