Assassin's Creed fans horrified over future of series

After a rocky few months for Ubisoft, it was recently revealed that Assassin’s Creed Shadows would no longer be targeting its 15 November launch date.

Instead, the game will now aim to release on 14 February 2025, granting developers the time to “polish and refine the experience”.

You see, Ubisoft doesn’t want a repeat of what happened with Star Wars Outlaws.

If you push the cacophony of noise to one side, I happen to think that Star Wars Outlaws offers a pretty fun adventure, but it did have its fair share of bugs and glitches upon release.

That affected sales, and that’s not a mistake that Ubisoft wants to replicate.

With that in mind, Shadows’ delay can only be a good thing. Temporary disappointment will fade away, and we’ll be left with a much stronger game.

But it might be too soon to say that the Assassin’s Creed franchise’s fortunes are looking up, as fans are less than impressed with Ubisoft’s plans for the future.

ICYMI: Take a look at Assassin’s Creed Shadows’ gameplay trailer below.

A report by Insider Gaming claims that Ubisoft is set to launch 10 Assassin’s Creed experiences within the next five years.

It’s important to note that not all of these will be AAA console games. For example, mobile game Assassin’s Creed Jade is targeting a Q2 2025 launch.

Shadows is likely to be included in this line-up, alongside the Black Flag remake, codenamed witchy Hexe, and multiplayer offering Invictus.

Insider Gaming has previously spoken of the codenamed Nebula too (set across India, the Aztec Empire, and the Mediterranean), a second multiplayer offering known as Echoes, a free-to-play co-op game codenamed Raid, as well as another unknown remake.

That brings us up to nine either known or rumoured projects in total across the next five years.

The problem is that fans believe that Shadows’ current predicament proves that rushing out games is not the way to go, and I’m inclined to agree.

It’s great to see that Ubisoft is full steam ahead on Assassin’s Creed as it's a great franchise that has the constant ability to reinvent itself, and that seems abundantly clear given the breadth of the projects in the pipeline.

What we don’t want to see though are 10 half-baked efforts.

Let’s hope that between Outlaws’ sales and Shadows’ delay, Ubisoft has discovered that taking its time is the way to go.