User blog comment:The Milkman/Extended Expectations, Part II/@comment-70.143.67.17-20120630201302/@comment-4950455-20120701210012

I was never expecting the ending to meet the expectations from when I finished Mass Effect 2

Really? Because that's a vibe I partly get from the blog, and it's definitely a vibe I get from a lot of other people who disliked the EC. Yes, it sucks that (for instance) the Catalyst is still around, but we knew all along that it would be; as the top-of-the-page quote says, by their own words Bioware just doesn't know how to write a good story anymore.

So I'm not sure why so many people seem unpleasantly surprised that the ending kept many of the original's flaws - I'm frankly shocked as to how many it changed, whether it be Joker's redemption (and the explanation of what happened to your squad) to actually adding the Refusal option (however half-done it was, given how often they reiterated the endings weren't being changed its mere existence is startling). We had a pretty fair idea of what we were getting going into this.