In the middle of 2009, his team informed him that they wouldn't have time to fully test the game as it was currently planned. "I felt that, 'Okay, there were too many things to do and to finish.' So we said, 'let's take a portion of the game that was planned and we'll give it in as DLC.' We'll remove some stress to the team while giving more to fans and people who like Assassin's Creed."

That wasn't the only piece cut from the game. The team also had to remove the ability to replay any mission, due to lack of time for proper testing. Desilets points out that it could still be patched in "eventually." Given the reasoning for the content removal, it seems as if the other options were a delayed game or one without its pieces properly tested, so Desilets is confident he made the right choice. "I think we gave them so much content that they cannot say that we owe them, that we didn't give them a lot for their 60 bucks," he said.