Pretty sure we can all agree on this; please save the “multibillion dollar company couldn’t possibly have resources to do that.”
Feels pretty bad having the new eredar questline not be fully voice acted but random dracthyr quests around the isles do.
they should just use AI/Chatbots for VA.
you can program them to sound almost as good as actual VAs,
and at no cost 
I won’t use the resource argument. I’ll use the “it’s hard to schedule voice actors for last-minute quests when you’ve got a deadline to meet” argument.
It probably just wasn’t worth it for the two quests that make up the eredar questline. If anything, I’d criticize the questline for being short, bland, and with very little payoff. The rewards pale in comparison to the NPC skins and we never even get to meet those supposed “allies” of the new eredar bro. The whole thing just feels slapdash. I’m guessing it’s just a throwaway questline because they’ve got nothing else for draenei (e.g. heritage armor) in the pipeline right now, and they haven’t had lore since Legion.
No company wants to be at the forefront of the inevitable lawsuits that will result from this. Using an AI voice from scratch is one thing, but voicing a questline with pre-existing characters would require training the AI to emulate a human’s actual voice (e.g. Velen).
Actors are literally striking over this right now, and they might strike in the video game industry next.
especially in the midst of an writers and industry wide strike with VAs about the very ai problem and not payed enough
Don’t worry. Ion is a lawyer.
I acknowledge the joke but winning or losing the court case is irrelevant. Either way, the publicity would be pretty bad.
Like, imagine if Nintendo just used AI for Mario’s voice in every game going forward. Voice actors belong to unions, and they’d likely all blacklist Nintendo.
On a related note, Mario’s voice actor retired 3 weeks ago.
Isn’t there an actor’s strike going on now?
Yup. It’s why I used it as an example. The newest Mario game already has the replacement VA.
Knowing Nintendo, I half-expected them to use AI. But they don’t seem to have gone that route, fortunately.
Don’t voice actors fall under SAG/AFTRA and are all on strike? If the lines weren’t recorded before the strike they’re not getting recorded unless Blizz wants to cross the union or have AI -generated voices.
Voice actors are also on strike right now.