Tongue-in-cheek hints and suggestions are not evidence, you're again latching onto anything that even slightly looks like it proves your point. Romance isn't "banned", it's just not something they care about. They're not obligated to write romance, and it's not what the games are about.
Something not put into the released game does not mean it's not canon. Some things are cut for convenience, but are then alluded to in later material because they're part of the established scenario. For example, there's a line in BIO3 about Murphy Seeker being infected by drinking water. This tied into the fact that Raccoon City's water supply was contaminated, which is another reason the virus spread so quickly. Just because that single line was removed in the end does not mean Raccoon City's water supply wasn't contaminated. The entire game(s) of Outbreak are a prime example of where this "rule" is nonsense. Outbreak is literally only half-released. Much of the story is unexplained or unknown simply because the 10 scenarios we got were written to tie-in to the missing 10. But what we do know of the missing 10 can be accepted as canon. And yet another exception that disproves the rule is the scenarios themselves. Only about 60% of what is written makes it into the game, but the scenarios are still canon. They've never contradicted a single thing in any written scenario in 16 years.
Something not put into the released game does not mean it's not canon. Some things are cut for convenience, but are then alluded to in later material because they're part of the established scenario. For example, there's a line in BIO3 about Murphy Seeker being infected by drinking water. This tied into the fact that Raccoon City's water supply was contaminated, which is another reason the virus spread so quickly. Just because that single line was removed in the end does not mean Raccoon City's water supply wasn't contaminated. The entire game(s) of Outbreak are a prime example of where this "rule" is nonsense. Outbreak is literally only half-released. Much of the story is unexplained or unknown simply because the 10 scenarios we got were written to tie-in to the missing 10. But what we do know of the missing 10 can be accepted as canon. And yet another exception that disproves the rule is the scenarios themselves. Only about 60% of what is written makes it into the game, but the scenarios are still canon. They've never contradicted a single thing in any written scenario in 16 years.
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