User blog comment:TheWarrior29/Should POTCO be considered canon?/@comment-1999071-20140304034810

I don't remember where exactly, but I'm pretty sure the developers said at one point that POTCO is cannon. Of course that meant coming up with crazy lore to make everything "fit" but it worked. I'll try my best to answer your questions.


 * 1) To keep the game from becoming rated T, you couldn't shoot people who are a live. The lore behind this is that it is a part of the code. Now its not mentioned in the movies, but that doesn't mean that its not part of the code.
 * 2) Price of Freedom is considered cannon, but none of its contents are mentioned in the movies. You can't dismiss stuff just because its only used in one medium.
 * 3) It doesn't say you can't be booted out. Sao Feng gave Lordship to Elizabeth even though she was clearly not a pirate. Why couldn't Jack win it in a poker game?
 * 4) The Black Pearl was sunk and risen again. Jolly Roger is a VERY powerful voodoo user.
 * 5) Jack Sparrow never took over the QAR, and if he did, do you think a pirate like Blackbeard would admit defeat?
 * 6) It was assumed this is a time when Blackbeard is in hiding from the one legged man or is otherwise occupied trying to find a way to beat him. It is during this time that Jolly Rogers superior voodoo powers takes control over the Zombies on board.

If you have any more questions, just ask.