Good points. What I don't like is when people bring in legitimate consumer protection sites like BBB or the FTC over the perceived quality of a game. They're around to prevent fraud, not to QA the writing process.

I'd rather the protection entities be engaged to investigate whether software publishers are releasing broken products that require a release-day patch just to make it playable. That trend is quite disturbing.

I always feel so torn over this issue. On one hand, I'm with the people that think the ending is pretty much garbage the way it stands. Yeah, you can infer some things from what is pretty much accepted as the canon ending (red + breathing), but if those theories turn out to be true, then the game asks for a huge stretch of your imagination for those last 10-15 minutes of playtime, pulling things out of it's butt that never existed or were talked about until that last little bit of the game. On the other hand, I think some "fans" have gone way overboard with their crazy actions that you've mentioned above.

In knowing that the endings were changed from what they originally were supposed to be (as has been confirmed in interviews and even the fancy art book), I don't think you can really call what was put out in the final product a creative vision. I *do* believe that it was the right decision changing the endings to what we have now, because it could potentially continue the series in ways that fans could appreciate more (the original endings involved everything being wiped out by dark matter or having civilization get harvested by reapers to try and stop the dark matter problem, both of which leave hardly any wiggle room to continue the series in a familiar space, so to speak). I just don't agree with the execution, which BioWare is supposedly fixing, which is great. Sometimes, mistakes are made that need owning up to by the creators, and I think they realized that sometimes it's okay to be vague and sometimes you end up being so vague, it's confusing.

The conspiracy theorist in me doesn't think they caved in at all, actually. They probably had something planned like this and all the complaining made them decide to push it up in the DLC ladder. Anyway.

The important thing is that their craptastic ending, their decision to fix it, and the possible fallout/praise from the Extended Cut really has *NOTHING* to do with the 99% of the game before the last 15 minutes. And it doesn't tarnish the series, either. I feel to believe that the ending ruins everything means you didn't get the journey, which is always the most important part.

I had no problem with ME3's ending even if all 3 endings looked the same. But I kinda see why the fans are pissed. Anyways, Whats done is done and the developers need to keep there creative integrity when it comes to storytelling in videos games and stick to there guns. I enjoyed ME3 all the way throughout despite how it ended. The important thing to me was the overall experience playing it.

I do get why fans would get pissed at the ME3 ending.
But the thing is they feel entitled to bitch and moan like if the whole game was terrible.

Most of the comments are like "Oh the game was great, but WAHHH THE ENDING WAS HORRIBLE. BIOWARE SUXS"

By the way, people complaining about the ending gives me a really worrying feeling about people not using their imagination and not being creative. They could pretty much use the time they have been complaining to make their own conclusion about what happened, make theories that may appease their head-canon and probably others' as well.

Yeah, I did hear the whole bit about the original ending being leaked. I don't think that should have pressured them into completely redoing the ending, though. New albums by music artists leak all the time, and do they go and change the albums completely? No. They put out the original product that they put so much work into.

But I am happy that Bioware at least had it in them to make a new DLC ending for the fans. While you can argue the fact that they shouldn't have to do this, it only shows how much the people at Bioware care, which is nice to see from a gaming company.

Back in the day, I used to play games on my C64. They would cost around $40 for big name games at the time. Occasionally I got a game that just finished with little to no story at the end or just ended. My mum would go off her nut about lazy programmers and writers but I just went, well it was fun, let's ply that again. It would never had ever crossed my mind that I should complain, best thing I would do if a particular game company way making games with crappy game play or crappy storylines, then I just wouldn't buy their games. I think gamers that go as far as they do over the ending of a game to be changed need to really get their priorities in order.