The next Assassin's Creed game will not take place in feudal Japan as previously rumored by the gaming world.

Jade Raymond, Assassin's Creed producer and Ubisoft Toronto studio head, made the announcement in an interview with AdWeek.

"When we're building a franchise, we're thinking of a whole universe and how we're developing a meta-story that could live on for many years in games and TV," Raymond said in the interview. "If the story has nowhere to go, then you end up with the video game equivalent of The Matrix 2 or something where it's never going to be quite as genius."

So far the franchise has seen settings in the pirate plagued Caribbean, the American Revolution, the Renaissance, and the Crusades era Middle East.

The rumors began in 2011 after a poll taken by Ubisoft asked gamers where they would like to see the series go next. Japan was one of the options listed, and it was one of the more popular picks by fans. However, according to Polygon, the development team feels that is one of the worst locations for the game to take place.

Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag recently received a 2.3 GB single player update to the PS4 version of the that was supposed to fix connection issues, and introduce tutorials for streaming as well as other features.

Polygon reported that the patch will fix an error that occurs to PS4 users with over 100 friends, and will also fix a bug that did not give reward skins.

Title Update 4, a multiplayer patch, went live for PS3, PS4, Xbox One, and 360 on February 11.