User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-24.199.113.201-20150607132445/@comment-1153722-20150607140042

No. If you were to ask me if I thought the games needed a modern-day portion if none of the previous games had it, my opinion would have been different. At this point we've had so many games' worth of modern day story, plus the comics and Initiates. To just drop it all of a sudden would be bad, especially since there's a lot of people who do like the modern day storyline. Most of the complaints in that article seem to be related to the modern day stories of Black Flag, Rogue and Unity. They just need to make the story and gameplay more engaging. And, perhaps, an option to skip the modern day for players who feel it 'breaks the immersion' (they promised such an option for Black Flag, but it wasn't in the game).