User blog comment:Markurion/How many of you put a bullet in Godchild in EC?/@comment-1854594-20120718193300/@comment-24174486-20120718215017

"I'm pretty sure that if you managed to unite all the races and gathered a s***load of resources, you would at least have a CHANCE of defeating the Reapers."

If you had paid attention to how the final battle goes, then you would have the answer. You need a high enough Effective Military Strength in order for the fleet to hold their own against the Reaper forces. To put it simply: it takes just about the forces of the entire galaxy united in order to simply hold out against the Reapers over Earth alone, while countless other Reapers are still active throughout the galaxy. Not only that, the failure of the Crucible would be a crushing psychological blow—they had put their faith and hope into the Crucible stopping the Reapers, and the realization that it's not working, that all of their sacrifices for the Crucible were in vain, would destroy them mentally even before the Reapers start destroying them physically.

"People like me who came up with stuff like that is who Bioware slapped in the face."

So BioWare is evil because they didn't make an ending which was exactly what you wanted.

Frankly, I much prefer that there isn't a golden sunshine-and-flowers option. Every choice available to you comes with a heavy price and a vastly different outcome, and you have to weigh which option you think is the best or most acceptable. Whining over the lack of a "perfect" ending is just immature.