User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-4797093-20120412093146

I'm perfectly fine with a bad ending, and I don't think that's what the fan reaction is about. In fact caricaturing this as "fans just want a happy end, our ending was 2deep4u" is what Bioware is doing.

It's about the fact that ME thus far had been, more than any other game, about the player writing his own story, and deciding for himself what it means. The writers create the world and the framework for the story, but the player is the one who decides what the story is. Up until the very end of ME3 that is. Because then suddenly Bioware takes over and writes your story for you, forcing their own meaning on it. Did you reunite Geth and Quarians? Too bad, this story is about organics vs. synthetics. Is your Shepard a cold-hearted bastard who only looks out for himself? Too bad, he's going to sacrifice himself for the good of the galaxy.

The reason people are mad is because after 120 hours of shaping their own story with their very own Shepard, Bioware suddenly kills all that and forces its own story and its own generic Shepard on you. And they call it their "artistic vision", completely misunderstanding the spirit of ME or the whole point of an interactive medium.