The Assassin’s Creed series may see a new title released every year, but it would seem that Ubisoft knows how the series will, eventually, end.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Assassin’s Creed IV:Black Flag game director Ashraf Ismail went into detail about the end of the series:
“We have an idea of where the end is, what the end is. But of course Yves [Guillemot, Ubisoft’s overall boss] announced we are a yearly title, we ship one game a year. So depending on the setting, depending on what fans want, we’ve given ourselves room to fit more in this arc. But there is an end.”
Ismail also explained that the series has multiple dev teams working on it, with a ‘brand team that sits on top.’ This team is filled with writers and designers that are ‘concerned with the series’ overall arc.’ He followed that up by stating that there is, in fact, an overall arc and each of the games has a place within it.
Assassin’s Creed III, which released last year, marked the supposed end to Desmond’s story. In Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, despite Edward Kenway being an ancestor of Connor, in the ‘real’ world you are an Abstergo employee who, presumably, has no ties to the Assassins or Desmond.