User blog comment:Ygrain/ME sequel: what shall we do with the extinct races?/@comment-5008642-20121124055541/@comment-1786741-20121124145201

Yeah..... not quite. You DID see the Rachni Queen regardless of whether you saved her or not, it was just a different queen. Same with the other squadmates, if you killed them there was a member of their race that replaced them in the case of Tali. It's completely different when you wipe out The. Entire. Race. To make three somewhat important races inconsequential wouldn't be the best idea.