User blog comment:The Milkman/No More Mass Effect/@comment-4950455-20120609191658

I agree with pretty much all of this (and have raised it before myself), but one thing I wanted to point out: I'm not sure if "Bioware has written themselves into a corner" is the right way to put it. It suggests that 1) they weren't planning on having an ending that leaves no room for sequels, and 2) that it's a bad thing if they did. It's pretty clear the first isn't true, and I feel the second isn't either - while I certainly would have done it differently, I know that if I was making the game I'd still want to leave the ending as a very definitive, sequel-barring conclusion. This was supposed to be the grand finale, the end of the Mass Effect universe. Turning franchises into zombies is rarely a good idea.