Convenience is a big factor. Far Cry is very popular on PC so there is that. Still AC Origins had 35% digital sales and its a more console focused series. Horizon has sold 7.6 million by March and 4.7 million at retail so that game has 35% sales digital and it doesn't have a PC version to boost its digital numbers. Digital is growing more popular.

Out of curiosity, what problem do you have with the direction? 

eh not really. It's pretty much just as popular as any other big 3rd party multiplat franchise.
You might confuse it because the first Far Cry was PC exclusive, but since Ubisoft took over Crytek's work, the franchise went in a completely different direction.
AC is indeed more console focussed, but that's because Ubisoft likes to release the PC version 6 months later.

More and more games are getting higher and higher digital sales. No wonder gamestop is on a downward spiral. Will defintely go the way of Toys R Us within the next 3 years.

They didnt change up franchise much and from what ive heard its more of the same.

The game is fun. I took down the statue yesterday. Felt really good blowing their shit up.

I thought it had to do more with the antagonists.

Intenet is getting faster and faster, no brainer digital sales will take over physical in the future. When you can download shitbytes of data in minutes, why bother buying physical?

I'm stuck to the past myself.

Mobile net has data cap, most of the internet services for home have no "data cap" otherwise I wouldn't be able to watch netflix in HD as much as I do while downloading shitbytes on PC costantly.

Not to mention all the  twitch streams i constantly watch, only by watching twitch streams, dozens of gigabytes of data are downloaded in a single week. If there were caps on internet data of people nowadays nobody wouldn't be able to watch even some twitch stream man.