An Assassin's Creed set during the American Civil War would actually be pretty cool.
I wouldn't even mind the main character being a freed slave whose enemies are the KKK. Because that's relatively historically accurate.
Ubisoft could have released a game version of Django Unchained—a cool black guy's adventure in the American South.
But no, Ubisoft insisted on adding George Floyd to medieval Japan.
Then everything started falling apart, and AC got sold to Tencent.
Why?