User blog comment:Arbington/ME3 Theories/@comment-899316-20100803043110

Financially, if Bioware pulls this off right, Mass Effect becomes the next Halo. A load of spinoff games, money all around. But this is where the main trilogy ends, the end of everything that was started in the first games. Some events are going to have to have an impact here. If they don't, the fans won't be as happy, the series won't be as lucrative, and the gravy-train stops there. It'd be a bad financial decision not to go all out on this game, a bad decision not to spend every penny in the Bioware bank account.