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[Ghost-Ami]

I was expecting FG for about 4.99 but that didn't happen so I bought some old star war titles instead... I mean, who doesn't want to play
Dark Forces I & II

I was mildly traumatised for like two years after the Lucasfilm Story Group officially decanonised all games, novels, comics, et cetera from before 2014.

Muh Kyle Katarn. ((((

[KingSpawn1979]

Not sure who destroyed SW. Lucas himself or Dizznee.

[Ghost-Ami]

Not sure who destroyed SW. Lucas himself or Dizznee.

Indirectly Lucas but not really either of those.

The Walt Disney Company, a distributor, is what bought Lucasfilm, not Walt Disney Studios the content creators. As a distributor the Walt Disney Company handle only the nuts and bolts of getting Star Wars content out there. They have no creative input.

Lucas was never particularly keen on the old Expanded Universe---now called "Legends" since all its content is not noncanon---but at least he had the sense to leave well enough alone and let fantastic scifi/fantasy/military authors like Timothy Zahn and R A Salvatore and Troy Denning and Karen Traviss and Michael Stackpole and Aaron Aalston do something good with Star Wars. Nothing in the old movies was able to set my imagination alight like some of these old Star Wars novels, the Thrawn trilogy, the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, the Second Galactic Civil War, Abeloth, et cetera.

In 2014 Lucas gave the reins of creative control over to the Lucasfilm Story Group, and that's whose been annihilating brilliant parts of Star Wars. The Group is mostly made up of people from within Lucasfilm who have been there forever, and you could say they were "raised" by Lucas with a contempt for the Expanded Unvierse, and unlike Lucas they had the temerity to do something about it and officially condemn all its content to the dustbin of...well...not even Star Wars history because it's all noncanon now.

I'm not normally the sort of person to get upset over a little retconning; and the Lucasfilm Story Group's avowed goal of establishing ironclad continuity between all Star Wars properties is laudable; and I do find a lot to enjoy about some of the new movies and novels and even the Star Wars Rebels animated series.

But in the final analysis the Group destroyed 20+ years of fantastic Star Wars content and lore, and while enough good content has come out since 2014---Timothy Zahn, for instance, is right back to writing about Grand Admiral Thrawn in the new canon---to mitigate how genuinely upset I was just a few years ago I still find the relegation of some of the best novels I've ever read to the status of "Legends" in the Star Wars universe entirely unforgivable.

What hurts the most is that so many things in the new canon are pale reflections of content in the old. I will never, never, never forgive Kylo Ren for being a twobit knockoff of Jacen Solo. ((((

[GiveMeTactical]

Ok, so I have cancel my SW purchases from steam until this matter is resolved and non-existant is able to catch a breath ... or two LOL

[Ghost-Ami]

Ok, so I have cancel my SW purchases from steam until this matter is resolved and non-existant is able to catch a breath ... or two LOL

Halp. XD