Anchorhead said:

I've taken a glance around the nerdosphere since the news release and there are plenty of fans who are put out or upset that the stories they love aren't official anymore.

Which, as I said in the "EU like" thread, we don't even know LFL is technically saying. All they've said is that VII-IX won't tell the same story as the EU. They might simply be clarifying that this won't be an adaptation of an existing storyline, which we already knew prior to this news.

Then again, the part about "in order to give maximum creative freedom to the filmmakers" certainly seems to imply they don't want continuity to bog them down.