User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-203.129.39.74-20130311135538/@comment-4829046-20130311135842

They want to put pirates in new light. They want to portray pirates historically accurately. How gritty the times were and the reason for people to turn to piracy.