User blog comment:StagedDom19/Missing the Main Problem/@comment-24174486-20120709121147

"Stating a few examples of character fails: Jack, Grunt, Samara, Jacob, Kasumi, even Miranda. Looking at these squadmates, I want you, the reader, to try and remember if any of these characters helped progess the plot."

Miranda? Head of the Lazarus Project, how Shepard is brought back to life. As for Jacob, he's her top lieutenant, and provides a Paragon-ish foil to Miranda's Renegade-ish nature.

Jack and Samara are also important characters, as they are the biotic specialists. Without them, it would have been impossible for the team to make it through the "long walk" without losing anyone.

The entire point of the characters was that you were gathering an elite team to fight the Collectors. And that's how they progress the plot: the more of them you have and the more loyalties you have secured, the more likely it is that you will get through the suicide mission with few or no losses.

"Killing the Rachni Queen, consequences? None. If you gassed her to death, you get a replacement... thanks for the waste time Bioware."

Wrong. Killing the rachni queen causes a replacement built by the Reapers to appear. If you rescue the fake queen, it will eventually go on a rampage, causing you to not only lose the rachni War Asset but lower another War Asset's value due to the damage caused.

"Killing Wrex... he gets replaced ... killing him holds nothing on the plot"

Wreav is a distinctly-different character with different plans for the krogan. Wrex or Wreav leading the krogan will lead to a different fate for the krogan in the end. Notably, Wreav being dead is one of the requirements of being able to convince Mordin/Padok Wiks to fake curing the genophage, and Wreav will not discover that the cure was sabotaged if you do so (unlike Wrex, who will discover).

"ME2 was deplorable and downright a waste of time."

Actually, ME2 has plenty of plot relevance. Shepard fights the Collectors because they work for the Reapers, and what the Reapers do with the people they harvest is revealed.

"You still get the Krogan even if you killed Wrex and firmly defended the genophage."

And if Wrex is alive, he isn't fooled and withdraws the krogan War Assets if you sabotage the cure.

"The only squadmate that should live is Tali. She at least affects the outcome of a plot."

Liara and the Virmire survivor both have large roles in ME3's plot.

"destroying the Collector base is pointless"

Your choice for the Collector Base has three effects, based on whether you destroyed or kept the Collector Base: whether you get the Reaper Heart or Reaper Brain War Asset (the Heart is worth 100, the Brain is worth 110), which ending's EMS requirements are lowered (Destroy if you destroyed the base, Control if you kept it), and which ending you get if you have the lowest EMS bracket (Destroy if you destroyed the base, Control if you kept it).

"if we are sueing Bioware"

Your case would get laughed out of court.

Honestly, I think BioWare would have a far better chance of successfully suing you.