User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-1900300-20120408085950/@comment-4950455-20120408104919

It's not just a political thing. In a nutshell, fans do not know better then creators. They can, and certainly do in this case, but it's not an absolute rule. And so for fans to think they have the right to change a work to their tastes would, in my mind, set a dangerous precedent. The examples you cite from film aren't analogous because, as you say, determining exactly who has "artistic rights" in that scenario is very hard to do - but one group that certainly doesn't is fans.

Make no mistake, I think that the endings (or rather, ending) clash with the themes of the series, make no real sense, and are just all-around terrible, and they should be changed. But while I have the right to say this, and the right to think a whole lot harder about whether I intend to spend any money on another Bioware product, I don't have the right to have the ending changed to suit my tastes - and so, it worries me when some people opposed to the endings say that they do.