Finally someone who agrees with me about 19th century Britain as "overrepresented"... and "especially if we get a male main playable of privilege"? That plus "British is trendy" will probably make Ubisoft MORE likely to go with such a player character, especially because "of privilege" screams Ezio to them, and considering how hard they tried to jam Arno into that mold without the personality which made Ezio actually liked... :/
I'd call Lucasfilm's case a mix of reboot and canonicity policy change, because instead of an EU they're going for a single canon level, no "single most canon", so for example Rebels and its prequel novel happened "as much" as the original movies did.
By the way, I've some more ruminating on the recent characters over in Discussion as "AC Character Discussion (forking from the Hope/Shay thread)", hopefully some of it interests you.
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I'd call Lucasfilm's case a mix of reboot and canonicity policy change, because instead of an EU they're going for a single canon level, no "single most canon", so for example Rebels and its prequel novel happened "as much" as the original movies did.
By the way, I've some more ruminating on the recent characters over in Discussion as "AC Character Discussion (forking from the Hope/Shay thread)", hopefully some of it interests you.