User blog comment:Bluegear93/Mass Effect 3's ending, something came to my mind./@comment-4679353-20120523015036/@comment-1388547-20120524054538

Indeed, IIRC the first Mass Effect was published through Microsoft. If the price of reaching a broader range of platforms is working with EA, then that price is too high. (Of course, that's hindsight. When I saw that ME2 was good, I breathed a sigh of relief and forgot about the EA issue, not realizing what was really going on.)