User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-12-'14 — New Assassin's Creed in Victorian London leaked/@comment-24760042-20141209172022/@comment-4829046-20141210142627

Look cool? I think that's debatable. Liberation was edited heavily to accommodate pro-Templar and showed Aveline discarding the Assassins. The Black Flag game we played wasn't even meant for the masses. It was the original version that would later be edited and shipped off(ship pun unintended) so we have no clue what was actually seen by the public. And Rogue was just them doing something after their system was hacked and that one ended with the Assassin operations being destroyed. Unity was also just the Assassins hacking into what was supposed to be the idolization of the Templars and give a special mission to random people.

So yeah, I think the point stands. Abstergo didn't intend to portray the Assassin Brotherhood as anything but something flawed and inevitably inferior to the Templar Order.