Canon is a weird, loosely defined thing in fictionāunless you’re talking about theĀ Star Wars universe, because Lucasfilm has a “Story Group” dedicated to keepingĀ Star Wars canon locked down, which mostly involved throwing outĀ the entire expanded universe. Now, that pesky canon cannon is shooting down hopes ofĀ Star Wars Battlefront content outside the scope of the game’s current setting.
Polygon reports that on an earnings callĀ last week, EA’s chief financial officer, Blake Jorgensen, said, “You can’t make a game in Star Wars that violates the canon of Star Wars,” according to a transcript from Seeking Alpha. That may sound a bit weird when the game already has a “Battle of Jakku” expansion, since Jakku is a new planet on theĀ Star Wars block, but that battle occurred soon after the events ofĀ Return of the JediĀ in-universe, as the remnants of the Empire fought against the New Republic.
What the game won’t do is branch out with its DLC much beyond that into the timeline of theĀ prequels or the current ongoing trilogyāsurely a bummer for EA with the massive success ofĀ The Force Awakens. That’s not to say that there won’t beĀ future games, maybe even in the same series, that tackle those eras, but that’s apparently the not-at-all-silly reason they were deemed off-limits for the currentĀ Battlefront: canon.
I look forward to seeing my every BattlefrontĀ Force-choke and lightsaber throw inĀ Battlefrontāplus all the times Darth Vader has undoubtedly been “teabagged”āacknowledged as canon in the next edition of theĀ Star Wars visual dictionary. We all know canon is very important in video game adaptations.
(via Polygon, image via EA Games)
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