The flailing Ubisoft hopes to capitalize on its most successful franchise. A new job listing is seeking a developer to introduce live-service elements into Assassin's Creed games. Gamers can also expect more microtransactions in follow-ups to Assassin's Creed Shadows.
Or go with the No Man’s Sky model free update model, with slightly lower quality updates in a 4-months dev cycles, where one sprint could be a major update. Bug testing and marketing could be outsourced to the fanbase as an unwritten contract.
But since it is the developer’s only significant income, they have to keep the game going. Now, the game is quite bloated; too many ideas don’t fit the original idea, so it becomes your problem to ignore them.
That’s why I don’t play live service games; the product is never finished, and gets worse over time due to milking.