User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-4835791-20120601081030/@comment-5038903-20120601180750

Well i diden't fully agree that Shepards sacrifice is pointless. For the first Shepard sacrifice stop the Reapers (seemingly). Secondly, you can't say it was pointless yet becuse the EC haven't been relesed yet so we haven't seen everything that happens after the ending as it is right now.