User blog comment:ZyLogic/Mass Effect fans deserve nothing more/@comment-4950455-20121010033309/@comment-4721065-20121010081919

Sorry, but this argument by numbers doesn't work in favour of the original ending no matter which way you spin it. Comparison of the number of the Retake pages vs. the sales assumes that: a) every person who has purchased the game has finished it (and there is a certain percentage of players with every game that don't finish it for whatever reason); b) every person that has disliked the ending will have the time or will to actively support the Retakers, not taking into account people who have inherent dislike of protesting and social media, people who are too busy to devote time to this, people who thought that the movement won't achieve anything and people who had simply given up on the franchise after the ending.

Once you take this into account, it should become obvious that the Retake participants/outspoken critics are only a fraction of the people who disliked the ending. Are they the majority? To answer this question, consider the following: if we assume that people who liked the ending make up the majority, then it logically follows that an extremely tiny minority of those people cared enough about the game/ending/Bioware/you name it to oppose the supposed minority and its active campaign against the ending, because otherwise there would be a steady voice of ending supporters across the internet. This hasn't happened.

As such, we now have two options: either the majority of players disliked the ending of the series, or they liked it, but let the minority lambast it without putting up much effort to voice their supportive opinion. I will let you decide which one is more likely.