User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-1900300-20120408085950/@comment-4797093-20120408113209

I don't think the term used by Bioware is "artistic rights" so much as "artistic vision".

No the fans don't have any "rights", and Bioware has the right to ruin their own games as much as they want. It's insulting to the fans and to everyone who was involved in the rest of the series, but they have the "right" to do it (of course the fans then have the right to stop buying their games etc).

But the term "artistic vision" is indeed very pompous and frankly ridiculous when applied to this ending, where (unless by some miracle the IT turns out to be true) the "vision" in question was essentially just laziness. And sorry but nobody is going to convince me that a generic three-choices-nothing-changes ending supported by a deus ex machina, space magic and a bunch of aged and nonsensical sci-fi clichés is "art".