Why Blizzard didn't make Vrykul playable?

[Alex86el]

Ogres suffer the exact same problem. Can't fit thru doorways.

Um.. Ogres could be just like Kultirans.
They don't have to be as big as the NPCs, and certainly not as big as the old Ogres of Draenor.
They will still be the biggest though.

[tikcol]

Okay, so a guy with one post wants to make his second post a needless and inaccurate personal attack? Wow, off a to a good start buddy, I'm sure you'll be with us a long time. (Also dude named after a viking loves viking themed race but his "name has nothing to do with it" - sure, dude, and someone calling themselves Legolas demanding High Elves clearly has no particular bias in the matter...).

I'm aware of all the Vrykul lore. I've been playing WoW since the original beta, and in WotLK, the Vrykul were pretty cool, especially as there was a lot of genuinely weird stuff going on with them. In Legion, they became much more generically fake-viking, for my money, with the Titans standing in for Odin and Hel from Norse mythology and so on. That stronger alignment with Norse mythology actually made them weaker, conceptually. Especially as WoW is not, in general, a game that borrows that directly from mythology (it's more of a magpie about about mythology stealing a bit from ancient Greece here, a bit from Warhammer there, a bit from Star Wars here and so on - whereas the Vrykul stuff has been lazier - just a series of viking mythology tropes overlaid on the WoW setting, for the most part).

But let's hear what you think:

What actual "fresh ideas", specifically, would the Vrykul bring to WoW?

Reminds me of all the posters with furry avatars clamoring for Vulpera. They also say they're not biased

[Has lost its way]

Same reason why tumblr don't have porn anymore. We cater to the worst of people these days.

[Donald Hellscream]

Maybe in an expansion setting that makes sense, like if we for some reason go back to Northrend or something.

It could also be that they don't want to have to change the model around to make akin to a playable character in terms of animations etc. Since their animations are pretty stiff in comparison to other races, presumably on account of them having I guess pretty dated rigging.