User blog comment:The Milkman/Why BioWare HAS Betrayed Us/@comment-4980393-20120404181437/@comment-4933332-20120405103816

Yeah I don't completely buy the blame EA argument. I think it's the case of the writers trying to be too clever for their own good. I think what happen was they were writing MAss Effect 3, then someone thought, really this sounds ilke a rehash of Dragon Age origins (shepard after uniting the galaxy, sacrifice their life to save the galaxy, see the funeral and then have an epilogue telling you about the different you make). Let's try to do something different

So they ended up with an "interpretive" ending and they never had any experience making an interpretive ending before and screwed up. They admit that they consider having shepard being inquisitive to the catalyst but decided not to because they wanted it to be "high art" or whatever without realising that Shepard not being inquisitive and antagonistic to the catalyst would have been against both the paragon and the renegade character.

They wanted an interpretive ending and they ended up sabotaging the characters and logic to get it (let's create plot holes and have the viewers join the dots, aren't we genious).

To me it just seems like a giant screw up rather than EA interference. A writer who wanted to go outside their comfort zone and do something different and it backfires.