Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-111.95.73.47-20180803063706/@comment-17964257-20180803130325

Hi, I'm the self proclaimed SAO Games specialist here.

You seem to be missing the point. While these games are "official", they present their own canons. Floor 6 of Integral Factor is already different than what Floor 6 is currently established as in the main canon. None of the events of the games are canon to the main series. This hasn't changed with Integral Factor, being made blatantly obvious by you, playing as your OC, with someone you met in the Beta. You and Koharu most certainly are not a part of the main canon, neither is Diavel surviving Floor 1 or other events and characters for that matter.

Integral Factor is in undiscovered lands at this point, having overtaken Progressive Novels. This doesn't mean you can blatantly quote IF bosses to be the canon bosses, even if Floor 6 boss did not contradict the main canon boss, since Integral Factor is a separate canon.

Much like Hollow Fragment had Hollow Avatar as the Floor 100 boss, while Ordinal Scale confirmed it was An Incarnation of the Radius in the main canon. We don't claim HF was canon, because it simply wasn't. It was its own canon, now known as the SAO Gameverse.

Please do let us know which Editor told you that you can take these media as canon, so we can talk to that person and slap some sense into them, because none of the editors I know, would say such a thing.

Official != Canon