User blog comment:Bluegear93/Mass Effect 3's ending, something came to my mind./@comment-2249774-20120522075020

Yeah, I mean, it's kind of obvious they were short on time. It's a very bare bones games and reminds me almost of the last 5 hours of KOTOR2 where suddenly everything is shitty and barely anything makes sense (they ran out of time too). And look what they did to Dragon Age 2. That game had about 9 months of production and had a mostly negative reaction with its main followers (which in turn scared a lot of people about ME3...guess they were kinda right)

However, I think it might be giving them too much credit to say they ran out of time, therefore we got this ending. I mean, ME3 was set to realize back in Summer 2011 if I remember correctly. They already passed their deadline. I can't imagine they didn't have ANYTHING set in place for the ending by that point. They would at least have had the skeleton of it, I would think, though things change in development constantly. I don't know what they wanted to implement in the ending, but it was a failure on their part. They could have skimped on other aspects to bring us a decent ending. Or, they could have at least been more clear about the ending they did have (as all they're doing in the free DLC is clarifying, which is a waste of money for EA)

And I know they're trying to save face or not piss off E.A. but if that had been the case, why not admit that they wanted to do more with the ending? They either failed as developers with the time they had or someone in BioWare purposefully intended at least some of the current ending. Either way, there were a lot of false promises made to fans with absolutely no apologies for breaking those apologies from anyone. There has been a blatant breakdown of communication here, that is no doubt having to do with EA.

I love, love BioWare and I used to dream about working for them when I finish my degree, but now I'm thinking they won't be the same developer by the time I get around to that. EA doesn't care about the quality of their games and though BioWare is an amazing developer, they have tied themselves to EA and that will probably never change until and unless EA drops them. Sorry for the rant, that's what I get for writing crap at 4 am.