Originally Posted by
Tlink7
Because the character is super boring and didn't really do anything. He gets kicked from his island because of a Naga sea witch... and can only reclaim it with the help of the Horde and its adventurers. He makes edgy death threats to the warchief of the Horde. Then he walks into an obvious trap and gets murdered... in a cave... by a Kor'kron orc... real tactical genius... After that he's back and has to request the help of the Alliance to actually get into Orgrimmar... having to pipe down quite a bit and ask the Alliance player very nicely after his little ''I am stronk troll who don't need no help'' fails to impress the player. Following that the Horde and Alliance get into Orgrimmar and take down Garrosh, Vol'jin didn't even deliver on his edgy threats. Then he becomes warchief because Thrall would rather just chill and bang Aggra, even Vol'jin is like ''why me??????''. He does nothing in Legion and then he dies. Thank God.
Orrrr they're killing off some characters to make the villains of the expansion actually seem like a threat, instead of just the usual ''oh noes it is enemy *roflstomps said enemy in the expansion with no real losses* ok who is next????''. I've never felt like the ''threats'' in WoW were actually threatening, because no one really dies, no areas get lost... (yes, the Cataclysm, but we didn't really interact with that, it was just there at the start of the expansion) with some of the important people dying, I do get that feeling. Plus WoW has quite the roster of characters at this point so... and it allows for people like Anduin to get some interesting story development.
If you want to end a franchise, you can just discontinue it, you don't have to kill off all the franchise's characters in order to justify shelving it... that's just stupid... Blizzard said there would be another expansion after Legion, when they were talking about the next stat squish so....