So they're having an Assassin's Creed Crossover

[Wolf Kanno]

You people do realize that XIII-2 had a crossover thing with Mass Effect and that MGS4 already did the Assassin's Creed thing awhile back right? Oh how we forget the past and doom ourselves to repeat history and such nonsense.

The difference is, the only "crossover" those games had was in the form of costumes. Those take hardly any resources or development time.

Meanwhile these festivals seem to have a lot more effort put into them. I would rather that effort be put into actually improving the core game, or making the DLC episodes better.

Well technically they are working on those elements as well, since Tabata has stated that they are foregoing the ideas of sequels to better clean up the later chapters and add more content expanding characters and story elements. Considering the options in that survey they did a few months back, I feel the team has a decent grasp about which story elements that could be better.

MMOs do stuff like this the whole time, there is no rule that says other games can't either. Frankly, those unhappy with XV should probably do for this game what I do concerning XIII, just ignore it's existence, because it's very unlikely the team will ever fix the game to the high standards fans placed upon it. Even if they did, for those of us who remember the original, the game is pretty much tarnished anyway, and will always be the game that "patched in the good stuff later". So it seems silly to me to feel that any news regarding the game will somehow work as a silver bullet to fix all of the games problems that some have with it.

For people not happy with the direction of XV, it's better to save your energy and focus on the horizon, like hoping XVI will be an improvement, or at least the KHIII and VII Remake don't suck.