User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Patrice Désilets leaves Ubisoft once again/@comment-177.80.45.151-20130508192355/@comment-1153722-20130509090735

Plus she is just one person, and the main thing that the series is suffering from is the yearly release cycle. They need to release they games when they are perfect, as they were envisioned to be, without any bugs. Not forced into retail stores in October or November. And considering that Ubisoft Toronto - so likely Jade Raymond too - is already working on Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag's successor, she won't be the one to change that.

The only people who can 'save' (as much as it needs saving, because we all still buy the games and the series is still a best-seller - so why would they change the formula?) the series are the higher uppers at Ubisoft, the ones who determine that a new game has to be released yearly in Q4.