KillerWave, go play the game and tell us were are references to the WC universe.
One, only one is there and even that one is open to debate, despite what Origin say about it.
P2 was drop and I belive that if P2 TD was not in the final stages (they were finishing shooting the film) it would be drop too, for a marketing coup they simply put the "Privateer II" above the "The Darkening" title, It was to please the WC fans (its was to FOOL WC fans) that was put in there but the game was so near to be finish that nothing about the WC universe was there incorporeted in the game so it could be released on time, if there was a little more work on that it would be diferent.
The game "The Darkening" was NOT to be a game based on the WC Universe, but after P2 was drop Origin start to claim it is despite the lack of ANYTHING in the game that is related to WC Universe, it simple nothing about it in either the manual or the in the boot system that say anything about WC Universe.
P2 TD sould have been reworked to incoporate WC Universe references, it was not to meet dead line, that is the way EA thinks, Its not a matter of having a Good game, its a matter of relesing a game, Good or Bad its pointless to EA as long the Dead line is reach, that is why they are losing moeny in the last years.