User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 08-02-'13 — Next game will be all new, plus DLC promotional material/@comment-3981209-20130210091548/@comment-5019018-20130210204824

I'm guessing that the "given up on Connor" thing is that he may not return; Altaïr did, so he wasn't really "given up on".

I wasn't overly fond of Connor either, to be honest, he seemed to lack character; even Desmond was less of a Potato.