Xboxgamezone interviewed Damien Kieken, game director the Assassin's Creed III multiplayer at Ubisoft Annecy, and he revealed that there will be no public beta test for the multiplayer this time around.
"Doing a beta takes a lot of time; we'd need to polish a version, submit it to the platform holders and support it when it's out. And all the time put into the beta doesn't go into the final game. Because we wanted to push so many things into the game, we took the hard decision to favor the final game content instead of doing a beta."