User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 05-08-'14 – Assassin's Creed: Rogue announced/@comment-89.142.72.92-20141020153716/@comment-413232-20141020184233

That's what I was saying, for shay killing innocents for the Assassin Creed is not acceptable, but for the Templar Creed in which he believe, it's different.

For myself, I see the killing innocents aspect added in the game as a way to show that Shay is so driven by the Templar Ideal that killing everyone who is an obstacle to his Templar goals is not a problem. I do not see that as the main focus of our protagonist as in GTA where the goal is to commit various murders on almost every NPC.