Star Wars Fans "OFFICIALLY" discredit Bioware's Star Wars: The Old Republic

People really need to understand that Wookieepedia isn't stating anything, they are merely making sense or otherwise stating what Disney/Lucasfilm have already said and making internal definitions relevant only to them.

They are not broadcasting this to the world, it is Wookieepedia's canon policy, and concerns only Wookieepedia.

Much ado about nothing.

From the point of view of George Lucas, as well as others at Lucasfilm, the EU has always been non-canon, anyway. The only canon were the movies and their scripts, novelizations and radio dramas, with newer editions replacing the old ones (i.e. Greedo shot first). Yeah, it sucks, but I don't make the rules.

The so-called levels of canon were an invention of Leland Chee for the Holocron, Lucas Licensing's internal database for maintaining consistency in the corpus of licensed, non-canon works. Lucas Licensing's consistency policy was never relevant for determining the canon of George Lucas' work. And the Flanneled guy was always quite clear about the fact that he never read the EU, couldn't care less about it and that there was never even a remote chance that it would be canon. So, technically, the only thing that changed is that Lucas Licensing no longer obfuscates the EU's non-canon status.

Honestly, you're acting just like Trekkies who were pissed off in the late 80s when TNG disregarded FASA and other licensed, non-canon works, which they mistakenly considered canon. That whole "fuss" is all but forgotten now, and so will this supposed "de-canonization" of the EU. Yawn.

As long as the Star Wars Holiday Special is still canon I'm good with these changes.

Best post ever. Three cheers for the Community team!

Anyway, all this nonsense about canon is just nonsense. Good stories are good stories, good games are good games. I don't care what kind of "canon" they are, I'll enjoy them just the same.

Declaring the vast majority (if not all of it) of the Expanded Universe as non-canon is an asinine slap in the face of all the work and effort that was put into constructing it, and bringing it forth to the fans to enrich and explore the never ending story that is Star Wars. It's also very ironic and awkward that they do this when they have added so many influences and direct characters, organizations and factions from the Expanded Universe into the TV series The Clone Wars, which is still considered canon (the Death Watch and Darth Bane to name a few).

George Lucas has most definitely contradicted himself and betrayed the values he has brought forth to the public by stealing many things from the Expanded Universe into the Clone Wars, and then declaring everything around it and the six films as non-canon. "People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians," my eye.

Then consider yourself slapped in the face. The EU IS NO LONGER CANON.

So long as we carry it in our hearts the EU shall live forever. The EU is dead, long live the EU.

/shed a single tear
/sniffle
/play a tiny violin

I start to wonder if you get aroused over stating that over and over again in this thread, whenever a chance arises and in CAPS.

No need to get to it like that.
Emancipate thyselves, brothers and sisters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFvj026dFxk

Revan and Bane are canon => The Old Republic is canon. We saw Darth Bane in Season 6 of The Clone Wars.
From this video you will see why George Lucas deleted this scene. Its not , because he reject to admit Revan ever existed. Lucas actually thought this ep is great. He removed them cuz he thought its ridiculous these two legendary sith lords to appear in that form , like they were in this episode.

I really dont care which part is canon or not I dont like the movies. My Star Wars universe is the Old Republic era.

Does anyone, like me, simply not care that this has happened? To add to that, since we are enjoying playing SWTOR, is anyone actually positive about the idea that the creators of this game don't have to adhere to some arcane and advanced stricture and instead can make compelling stories as they see fit?

Who knows what sort of crazy awesome things we can do in this game if it doesn't affect the canon. Bring Skywalker back from the future? Let's do it. Alternate universes are fun in comics, they'll be fun here too. Bring on the monsters and I'll keep blasting them with my wrist rockets.