User blog comment:Matthew Paul/What's wrong with wanting a happy ending for ME3?/@comment-4950455-20120410063303

Speaking personally, the people who want a happy ending bother me because they're speaking from a more subjective position, and so are a lot less likely to be listened to. Bioware keeps using the defense of "artistic integrity", and if complaints about the ending are solely of the "I didn't like it" nature - as opposed to "it was flawed" - that defense works a whole lot better. You might not like that there was no way to earn yourself a happy ending - honestly, neither do I - but it can't be described as an objective, unambiguous flaw like other parts of the ending can. So while people wanting a happy ending doesn't bother me in and of itself, people who are making that a primary requirement are, for lack of a better way to put it, "hurting the cause".