Assassin's Creed - Becoming a cash cow?

I may be wrong, but the AC series is starting to feel very milked. I mean that poor cash cow. Surely this starts to border on animal cruelty.

Now, to be fair, I have not finished AC, or II or brotherhood yet, despite owning all three. I am however making an effort to complete them, but now I see Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is expected in November. To further my point is the fact that Assassin’s Creed III is already in development!

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Assassin's Creed III will only be released in 2012,[1] and will have a new setting as well as a new protagonist (instead of Altaïr or Ezio).

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From the amount I have played, yes, it is a really cool game and I love the story and gameplay, but I think Ubisoft is taking it too far. Now I also know money talks and as long as people buy it, can you blame Ubisoft for making it? It's the same principle as the CoD franchise. When millions upon millions buy your product each time you drop out a new one, why should you stop making them?

What happened to the 'Assassin's Creed was always planned as a Trilogy'??

They saw the $$ and realised they could make more, it's the same as God of War.

If they keep on making the games better like they have been doing, they can keep on milking it IMO. I love the games and will continue to buy all of them, no matter how many they make, as long as they stay good.

However, if they take the CoD route and don't improve anything or add fresh gameplay and ideas I'll stop buying them.

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Well, the last game was so easy it pretty much played itself, so if that isn't answer enough to your question, what does?

I wasn't that blown away by Brotherhood to be honest, but the key difference between this franchise and say, Call of Duty, is in it's characters - AC2 for instance was filled with great characters and villains alike. Although Brotherhood was maybe a bit over familiar, they still stood out.

Can't say I really cared a stuff about CoD's numerous soldiers.

I actually missed AC2, but Brotherhood was hundreds better than AC1. In terms of AC being a trilogy, isn't Brotherhood more of an AC 2.5 than a whole new game really?

Also, I probably got at least 5-6 times the number of hours out of the single player campaign that you get out of the average FPS, probably 8-9 times considering games like MoH, so it's worth the purchase. However the MP didn't grab me like eg BFBC2 did.

I am still busy with AC2, but I can't help but notice the whole "oooh, an IP that works, lets milk it!" theme developers are following. I can't recall exact numbers, but apparently there was no new IP @ E3 (this year or last or something), just sequels of existing IP.

HOWEVER, AC2 was so good that within a day of playing, I had purchased Brotherhood too.. Lets hope it is better.. Then there is Revelations, which I am not looking at just yet (spoilers aplenty apparently). Then I may just buy AC3 too...

Oh sh... the cash cow is milking me!!!!

I bought the first one, skipped on the second with the DRM (although I see it's quite cheap on console now so I may pick it up yet) and bought brotherhood (as it only needed online for the investment thing which I didn't bother much with). I've enjoyed the games but just a question - will the new one also revert to something like AC2 with a forced always online connection?

You know what makes this cow different from the rest? It's a cow who's milk is still sweet!

Assassin's Creed has taken one of the most controversial theories around (Knights Templar, Catholic Church etc...) and has crafted a universe out of it that actually makes sense! This whole Knights Templar conspiracy has been floating around for ages, and there are so many theories regarding to what happened to them (Etc...) that it will naturally take more than three games to tell the whole story! Plus Ubi are not resting on their laurels as they have pumped new an improved features in each new installment that actually adds to the experience and not just the graphics! Although, they are getting more and more purdy :D! You must also remember that Brotherhood and Revelations are not full installments in themselves, they are rather expensive expansion packs (:p). But they are expansions that add to the story, they answer questions and best of all, they leave us with sooooo many questions at the each of every game! Revelations is going to answer so much about all of the questions we've had regarding AC1, AC2 and AC:B.

So in short: As long as the milk remains sweet and they improve upon the game in each installment, the series could continue on for a few good years before it starts going sour.

I expected Brotherhood to be a cash in on AC2's success. Boy was I wrong and because I was wrong I have faith that Revelations is going to be very good. So no, as long as they keep putting in the type of effort they have been thus far I will not classify the series as a cash cow, unlike the CoD games.

I must say I am enjoying the series. AC Brotherhood got a bit tedious at the very end, but thats because I did every single missions I could find...

And I will be placing my pre-order for Revelations at the end of the month. There is just one problem with November, too many awesome games being released then, where am I going to find the time :(

I'm loving the AC series although the thing that annoyed me was that by the time I could play each game on PC, they were already talking about the next one and showing trailers. Kinda made it feel relentless, but that's just because I HAVE to play each new one. Don't want to miss out on the developing story!

Agree with all the above.

Huge fan of the series. Brotherhood was an awesome game, got mine in CE. Would have loved to get a platinum but couldn't get further than about 90% completion. The multiplayer was also really innovative. Will definitely be getting the next installment.

Oh, and as for the 'cash cow' thing...

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Originally Posted by Duke Dude

As long as the milk remains sweet and they improve upon the game in each installment, the series could continue on for a few good years before it starts going sour.

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What he said :cool:

I thought all of them was excellent.. wonder how AC3 is going to be..

I must say, AC2 was an outstanding game. It's one of the top 5 games in my collection, by far! (No, I don't have only 5 games :D).

Once I started playing I couldn't stop and I HAD to finish it. Epic story, awesome characters and some of the best gameplay ever. I'll definitely get Brotherhood soon and probably AC 3 as well. :)

No matter what AC game gets released I'll always be amped to see the next - because it's always better than the previous one! :D so I'm not really complaining about it

Yep, it's a cash cow. Bought all three novels on Saturday. :P

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Originally Posted by Graal

Yep, it's a cash cow. Bought all three novels on Saturday. :P

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I saw one of those AC novels in the book shop the other day. I think I should see if I can find them in ebook format, might be worth a read

AC might be becoming a cash cow much like CoD, but unlike CoD, they aren't stripping the game down more and more with each releace, so far it's only gotten better with every game bespite the alway online incident. And it'll be one I'd be more than happy to support, baring they don't go and do something stupid like the alway online system again.

Hear hear! And you whats the best of it all? It has a strong story line and an epic MP idea with AC. If Ubisoft just keeps a decently written story line and maintains a strong degree of creativity, then I'm sure AC will be a long lasting and very successful franchise. I'm pretty amped for Revelations to make an appearance so we can finally conclude Ezio's story and see what lies ahead for Desmond our mild mannered modern day assassin-to-be :P

As long as it doesn't end up feeling rehashed, its all good by me.

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Originally Posted by hastehst

assasins creed is an ok game, bt there wasnt much action there..

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Not much action in an Assassin's Creed game? o.O

Were you admiring the scenery or something?

Were you playing with your screen on? O.o I mean all the hacking and slashing and stabbing and killing and stabbing wasn't even noticed? (Don't forget the first few hilarious kills with poison in AC II :-P) But as they different strokes for different folks. Some prefer the action of a rifle. Others like the action of stealthily killing people or even in a kamikaze style XD

I LOVE the AC series, and seeing Ezio's story coming to a close brings much sadness to me :(
Brotherhood was an amazing game and the multiplayer was seriously under-rated.
I don't think they are milking it, but rather delivering the games and story's we want to see.