User blog comment:The Milkman/No More Mass Effect/@comment-1441969-20120608222123/@comment-4237253-20120609173717

Personally, I think it arose from two things: disappointment and desperation. Whilst many of us are still in the anger and acceptance part of grief, I think these poor fellows are stuck on bargaining.

I do think it may be worse, however. Of course, neither "ending" is any good, but the only thing that the current ending does that even makes it remotely like an actual ending is that it resolves the plot. With the IT, the conflict isn't resolved, so you don't even get any kind of ending. Shepard either dies or is brainwashed by an arbitrary choice. After that? Well nothing. It needs DLC just to resolve the conflict. The current ending is bad for a hundred different reasons, but at least it finishes what the first game started.