Assassin's Creed Infinity Sounds Like A Threat

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The news of Assassin's Creed Infinityis more of an omen than it is a gift, and feels more like a threat to many fans. Though the game is a long ways away from being released, a Bloomberg report found that AC Infinity will be a live-service game and could potentially function as a hub for even more future Assassin's Creed installments. With Ubisoft planning more games after the next sequel, AC Infinity shows how Assassin's Creed has run ad infinitum by extending the series with an absurd number of entries.

Ubisoft's hit series launched in 2007 with the simple yet ambitious Assassin's Creed, which centered around Desmond Miles and his ancestor Altair. Desmond's story evolved over the next four installments while he explored the lives of his other ancestors. But when Assassin's Creed 3 (which was really the fourth installment) saw the end of Desmond's storyline, the series began to take left turn after left turn. Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag was a pirate game that pushed the assassin themes to the side; two games later saw Assassin's Creed Syndicate forgo historical realism for style and let players use high-tech, steampunk gadgets; Assassin's Creed Origins and Valhalla have finally brought the series to its current state, in which the games are now huge RPGs that take considerable time investment to complete with main characters who can develop godlike strength.

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While people can debate on whether these changes have been good or bad for Assassin's Creed, two things are undeniable: assassination missions have grown repetitive and new content is used to encourage pricey microtransactions. AC Infinity is more than likely to continue in this trend,