User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-4950455-20120418061152

After further thought, I've realized I do want a "happy" ending to at least some degree. While I'm not insistent on the stereotypical "Shepard lives and settles down with LI" ending, I do at least want to know that the galaxy as a whole will recover, and that everything done along the way wasn't in vain.

Fortunately, it sounds like the Extended Cut DLC, whatever its other failings, should at least establish this, judging from the interview with Patrick Weekes at PAX. So while everything we did is still going to be a waste out-of-universe, at least it will have mattered in it.