User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-117.213.115.155-20150312181123/@comment-4975789-20150314124715

I think periods are much easier to do than specific events, e.g. wars and revolutions. Just because with events, it's hard to get the Forrest Gump balance right (look at Connor essentially being the reason that the colonies won the war of independence, but then Arno's stark lack of interaction with the French Revolution). However, with time periods, there is no real outcome, just specific events, so its easier to make the character part of the period, sometimes causing and sometimes just being present at several key events (Ezio with the Medici plot; Edward with Blackbeard's seige of Charles-towne). So Ubi definitely need to focus more on time periods (such as the Rennaisance or the golden age of piracy) rather than key events (such as the American and French revolutions). Which is why I'm happy that the next AC will take place in Victorian England.