User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-210.187.170.102-20150807113620/@comment-1888015-20150809122222

I meant that in the sense that Mass Effect 3 took a whole trilogy's worth of decision making and funneled it down into 3 similar endings with seperate cutscenes (later revised, but you know what I mean).

And with Ubisoft's near incompetence at keeping any of their games' online servers to a stable degree, it's not encouraging to consider if they ever do take a change in direction like the one proposed. "Buggy" is an understatement.

What Ubisoft needs to do is to stop fracturing the installments of the Assassin's Creed series over 10+ studios to shunt out a game on an annual cycle. If they cut out half the teams they have working on these to prevent developmental Chinese Whispers (as it were), and spent longer developing and refining their games, not only would they put out a better product, but they could also refresh the interest in the series.

More and more people might buy a game series because it's an annual thing, but all that money serves to do is fuel the decline of the brand - like some sort of cash-driven train. There will be a peak, then it will all come tumbling down when the train speeds into the ground.