User blog comment:Bluegear93/Mass Effect 3's ending, something came to my mind./@comment-5607673-20120524013540/@comment-2249774-20120524013923

Most people would have just preferred something simply, like Shepard blowing up the Reapers and getting to ride off into the sunset with their LI, or at least Shepard kicking Harbinger's ass, then destroying the Reapers and dying, or a choice between the two.

Like someone made a good point here, none of ME's stories have been mysterious or really something you had to figure out. We pretty much get the story handed to us straightforward, and this deviated from that at the end. So yeah, the masses were unprepared for that, and would have preferred a straight-forward ending, preferably with a choice between endings, like Dragon Age: Origins offered.