Among the larger franchises out there, Assassin’s Creed eventually became one that you knew would have at least annual releases, dousing the flames of excitement in many. Assassin’s Creed Unity released with unbelievable technical glitches, giving way to nightmarish visuals that personally had me wondering if someone put something in my coffee:

This quarterly sales report pdf states in detail why they’ve decided to skip releasing Assassin’s Creed in 2016 - 2017. Learning from the numbers representing engagement, Far Cry: Primal and The Division has taught them that it pays to respond to the customer. Not all was lost on Assassin's Creed Syndicate as it reached critical acclaim, but in the grand scale this will give them the chance to reel it in and possibly help decrease the likeliness of releasing broken games as we've often come to expect.