User blog comment:Midhav/Pirates Online Rewritten/@comment-996391-20140526163557/@comment-1742432-20140526174310

The game is somewhat fan-made. The original was sort of incorporating all the elements of the movies based on which we concluded that the only reasonable place in the timeline was between CotBP and DMC. I doubt that the Black Pearl would have been captured in the actual canon during this time. It would have been worth mentioning by Sparrow in the films, or he would have at least been involved in its re-capture rather than sending off someone if that was true. So it has to be the opposite, just something created for the game. Similarly, since it's probably not entirely canonical, you can have an island where Henry presides over his followers after having been resurrected or something. Minuit over Orleans. Or you can just consider PotCo as a World of Warcraft in a way. If you play one of the latest expansions, say Mists of Pandaria, you get to travel across the world including places that existed in previous parts of the timeline (you have areas and quests from the earlier expansions simultaneously happening) for a new user. So PotCo can be considered as a player traveling the Caribbean in an amalgam of periods I suppose? Just an idea.