User blog comment:Aleksandr the Great/The Scrapped ME3 Ending, Detailed/@comment-4121017-20130620181851/@comment-4121017-20130706034356

Sorry if I'm reviving this thread again, but...

I'll pay twice if it's magnificent. Plus, I think this blog could do if you remove the second-to-last sentence. Here's part of his blog post from last year:

"So I don’t like to say “here’s what we originally were thinking” because it gives a false and very distorted impression of the process. Mass Effect was the creation of a huge team, with contributions coming in from many people at many stages of the project. Some things I liked ended up getting cut, some stuff I wasn’t sure of worked its way in. That’s the nature of the beast with collaborative works, and I think in the end it makes the final product stronger. But talking about the changes after the fact feels like I’m sitting on my throne and proclaiming, “That’s not what I would have done!” It’s easy to sit on the sidelines and say “I would do this or that”, but it’s very different when you’re part of the process, working with multiple ideas, trying to piece it all together and still hit your deadlines. Anyone who wasn’t part of the ME3 team is an outsider – even me – and whatever they say about the creation of the game is just unsubstantiated speculation."

And yeah. Also, I'm sorry for making the assumption of you beating on the dead horse. I just have to say it's getting tiresome to hear the same topic over and over.