User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-3061137-20121021064430

Well who didn't see this and DA3 coming, the bottle necked the endings to avoid the issues of having older players pissed that the Canon ending was completely different to their own ending. Non soldier Player Character will restrict some things such as access to the Normandy crew members but open up the game to allow the player to have unique backgrounds and skills more so then what is allowed with Sheppard. I'm guessing that this game will be set in the recovery period after the ending of ME3 and probably involve this "dark energy" that was the big bad in the leaked version of ME3 ending that was scraped after being leaked.