User blog comment:N7EagleEye/New Mass Effect 4 Details/@comment-5379655-20121020195218

So even though you criticized command & conquer as being a franchised cash cow, you... want the exact same thing to happen to Mass Effect? I understand loving a series (and I do love this series), but do you seriously want the same exact thing? The last thing you should want is for a series to become stale by recycling old gameplay ideas game after game. The Mass Effect universe is expansive and interesting enough to handle a protagonist who isn't a "War Hero Soldier" type. To be perfectly honest, I don't understand all the people who've ragged on Bioware for slipping their standards or betraying their fans because it doesn't make any sense. Bioware has brought us one of the most fantastic trilogies of all time and I believe that has earned them enough credit for us to trust them in future endeavors. In fact, this blog has inspired me to write some fan mail to Bioware thanking them for giving me my favorite series just so they don't think that all of their fans are so spoiled.

Sidenote: You would have never been able to play as Shepard's child anyway considering you can choose not to have a relationship, and therefore Shepard would never have had sex.