User blog comment:SpartHawg948/An Open Letter Regarding Mass Effect: Deception/@comment-3268946-20120131231743

I'm going to take a stab at what went wrong: Bioware probably hired out this author in the hopes of increased sales for Mass Effect 3. This author was probably told the general direction that the story would go and was given free rein from there. But the thing about him being an outside writer is that he did very little research into the lore of Mass Effect. I suspect he hardly had any contact if none at all with the writing staff of ME3. Had he been in contact, some of those basic mistakes could not have slipped the net. The only thing that I don't understand is who proofread the book. Did no one who has ever played one of the games take the time to say "Wait, that can't happen." Some continuity issues are fine, but the degree to which these issues extend is just incredible.