Forum:We shouldn't request an ending change

I really believe requesting an ending explanation or change isn’t a good idea. Why? I’ll need to break it down. Firstly, there’s the question of unanswered questions. Bioware left many questions unanswered as to what becomes of various characters, or the fleets. Will the crew from the Normandy stay on the wild planet forever, doomed never to return to their homeland (personally I believe so, but let’s leave this to debate)? In the destruction ending, have all the ships crashed as the Normandy did? The citizens from the Citadel have or have not been turned into zombies? As an answer to that, keep in mind every scene of the Mass Effect ending has been studied carefully, so it must be the will of the writers to leave questions unanswered. It’s intentional, is what I’m saying. Personally (sorry fellas), I see it as a plot device to make the player realize how insignificant the fate of thousands seem as compared to the totality of advanced organic life in the galaxy, as part of the theme of sacrifice in the trilogy, as well as the motif of few people producing an effect of great importance (the title is kind of winking at this). About the character choice, I’m also a bit frustrated, frustrated that my character’s personality only ended for talking to the illusive man, but I saw this coming from miles away (I say it’s from Human Revolution, who received so much acclaim and had a similar ending structure). As for plot holes, I’ll leave it to the debate corner. Secondly, there’s the notion of respect to the creator. That’s mostly what I want to insist on. You cannot ask a group of writers to change a story after they’ve released it. That’s disrespectful to creative liberty. I consider Mass Effect a great story, with an ending worthy of any other Asimov novel or Carl Sagan rant, and I realize it may be influencing me to say this, but it truly is disrespectful to ask Bioware to spit out DLC in order to relieve everyone. The ending they chose is the ending that was intended (and besides, frankly, should they ever change the ending we’d know this one was the finalized one, the truer one), they should be open to criticism but there’s a difference between saying you dislike a work and requesting to the artist that he change it, because if a work is insulted it still is an original product of creative liberty, whereas then it would be just a story on demand. You cannot ask Bioware to change the ending as much as you cannot ask for a movie or a book. That’s pretty much the main argument I have, that of respect. Of course, chances are since Mass Effect is pretty anchored in downloadable content the fans will get what they want, but keep in mind it’s insulting for a writer to have to change his work by others’ demand. And I really don’t want to insult Bioware. Anyone with me? (herecomesjohnny)