User blog comment:DeadpoolN7/Mass Effect 4/@comment-4085370-20121016172540

IF Mass Effect 4, then no Shepard.

One big reason: not everyone chose Destroy. How can a story about Shepard be continued if there was no consensus among the community? You can't force people to choose Destroy for the sake of being able to play a Mass Effect 4 because that would completely undo the series' core of letting players choose how they play the game.

Come to think of it, they possibly could do it...Shepard was able to die in ME2, and if he did you couldn't import that character.

Well dang.

They better not do it. They said it was the end of Shepard's story, it BETTER BE the end of Shepard's story.