User blog comment:Lancer1289/Why do People Hate EA/@comment-2127131-20120619203700/@comment-1388547-20120620075215

It's important to remember that EA acquired BioWare relatively late in the ME2 development process -- for all that it bears the EA logo, it's not really an EA game. For proper examples of BioWare's work under EA, see Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3.