User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-30764484-20120608031744

Once again, you're saying Bioware doesn't understand what a catalyst is, so that's another in the "lazy" column. Plenty of people realized that on their first playthrough, before IT even existed. If you didn't, that's your loss. Just like you can choose to not read the codex, but again, that's your loss.

Well, since there's EC, you can't complain about not getting an ending anymore. We also can't prove, either way, whether it was planned ahead of time. The only piece of evidence about that is that BW asked EA for a 6 month extention, but was given 3. EC is expected to come out more or less 3 months after release, which, if you've been following, totals about 6 months. Is that proof they planned it? Of course not, but there's no evidence they didn't plan it.