User blog comment:The Milkman/The Writing of the Ending/@comment-30764484-20120605044952/@comment-4950455-20120608064115

"What would fix the game for you?"

Depends on how you define "fix". From one perspective, it really can't be fixed - no matter how satisfying the Extended Cut is, it won't really take away the confusion and rage the ending provoked that first time.

However, it is definitely possible for ME3 to be 'fixed' in the sense of having changes made to make it enjoyable again, and a satisfactory conclusion to the series. While the ideal solution would be to simply cut everything after Anderson's death (other stuff could be reworked too, but the problem truly starts when the Catalyst makes its entrance), I would also be willing to accept anything that simply adds closure to the current ending. Ultimately, I care more about finding out what really happened to the characters and setting of Mass Effect then I do about plot holes.

"Really? It's that extreme for you?"

The Extended Cut is Bioware's last chance to win me back. As I said above, it's not going to really be hard for them to so, but replacing the current disaster of an ending with an ending that, while better, is terrible in its own right from both a Doylist and Watsonian perspective? That'll do it.

So I guess it's less that the indoctrination theory would 'kill' Bioware for me, as it is that it would prevent it from ever coming back to life.