User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/The Scrapped ME3 Ending, Detailed/@comment-11209678-20130625004945

I think when you look at the ending we got, it was probably better than any of these ideas in the interview. The dark energy idea seems kind of dumb, the reasons he laid out just don't stand up. I felt that was the best idea out of the group he had though. Personally I don't have too much of a problem with the ending we got, just a few more options in the end would have been nice. It just seemed like every choice was a loss, while in the other games if you did things correctly you would be rewarded with an ending that was satisfying. The choices you had should have been reflective on how you played the game, so if you played neutral, you'd have certain options, paragon, certain options, and finally if you played renegade you'd have certain options. I just felt the ending wasn't given the amount of work that it needed. Also, I find indoctrination theory interesting, if that would have been incorporated into the ending in some way that would have made the current ending much much better.