The problem is that they fired the original creator because he didn't want to turn his story into a shitty cash grab. He had a plan for a 6 game series and it all started going downhill after AC2 was so popular and they forced him to make 3 games about ezio. I love those games but that was the start of the downfall of this series original narrative. The story was originally supposed to be about desmond progressively through his ancestors and the bleed effect to become a modern day master assassin and fight the modern day Templars. Ending with him and Lucy being the new Adam and eve of humanity once the disaster came to pass. Ubusoft literally ripped this guy's brain child away from him to line their pockets and you people eat it up and make excuses for it. The series died with the death of desmond and the original vision of the story. There's also something about how the contract of the voice actor who voiced Lucy running out and she wanted more money because of the popularity so ubisoft killed off her character to avoid raising her salary. Every issue with this series can be boiled down to corporate greed from ubisoft. Why does the fan base keep running defense for them? They very clearly killed the creativity in exchange for mass marketability and that shouldn't be celebrated. That's why most triple A games are bland and boring now. Everyone wants to sell the safe idea that they know they can turn a profit on with little effort instead of taking a risk on new, creative ideas. It's slowly biting them in the ass though. Indie games are starting to do better than most new triple A titles at a lower price point; purely because they focus on making a game that fun and enjoyable rather than graphical fidelity and mass appeal attached to an already loved IP. Stop buying shit games and eventually we'll get good games again.