User blog comment:Matthew Paul/BioWare never made a case?/@comment-24174486-20130110074615/@comment-5379655-20130113101206

@Lily I think what Aleksandr the Great is getting at with the "crash" thing is that they changed it so that the crew isn't simply marooned on this jungle planet. If you have a high enough EMS, the Normandy will take off again, which is something that was added with the EC. No need to get snippy about him not reading your links, you just misunderstood him.

Also to all the others, I feel as if you are all taking this a little too seriously and need to bring it down a few notches. These conversations are no fun if it devolves into spiteful name calling.

on the note of EMS soldiers vs. ships and the whole "Sahara" analogy, the point of your WA isn't necessarily that they are all involved in the final battle around earth, that would be just silly, especially since quite a few of them are just technological advances or money. The EMS and your WA simply reflect the war readiness level of the galaxy. If you don't get any help or collect WA for the cause, then the galaxy is likely far more overrun with Reapers by the time you reach Earth, making the mission harder to complete. But organizing the forces you find into a concerted resistance against the Reapers, even if said forces aren't directly useful or even involved in the mission on Earth, helps to prepare the forces of good for the mission by tying down Reaper forces elsewhere who might otherwise have been called to Earth.

Also, I forgot who mentioned it, but you can in fact get the "best" ending without playing multiplayer. At least after the EC you can since they lowered the EMS levels you needed to reach.

Now if we could keep it civil, that would be awesome guys. Mass Effect is supposed to be fun, so stop taking it so seriously