Originally Posted by
Wazooty
Shut down, no, but between chronicle and what has happened in legion, just how much other story is there to tell? After what's happening now, there's no going back to something relatively innocent and not that important like pandaria. They got all their side stories out, now they're blazing a path towards the end of the warcraft story.
I imagine that's a big part of why Metzen retired: the rest of the story has been pretty much written, just needs to be made.
After the army of light void lords and stuff is over, maybe they'll go back to something simple, but the main story will be over...