User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 08-02-'13 — Next game will be all new, plus DLC promotional material/@comment-66.189.28.181-20130210162407/@comment-3046679-20130211114851

"Seems like Connor plot just for the sake of having more Connor plot."

Like Revelations was for Ezio. But nevermind that, I think they know they've written themselves into a corner with Connor - Ezio came from a civilized society, going halfway across the world and acclimatizing here was little problem for him. The awkward, naive Connor would be just painful to watch in a different setting.

And this is why, rather than having a canon dlc, we get more of Connor in an alternate timeline - because there's nothing left to do with him in the main arc.