User blog comment:The Milkman/Why BioWare HAS Betrayed Us/@comment-4980393-20120404181437/@comment-4950455-20120405101226

Frankly, I think EA's being misblamed here to some extent. Sure, rushing the game didn't help things, but more and more, all of the behind-the-scenes stuff that's coming out suggests the blame for the ending really belongs to Hudson and Walters. We don't necessarily know how much of this of true, but consider: this isn't really comparable to DA2, because here, we have a game that's great (despite potential nitpicks) for 95% before it just suddenly breaks down. That very much seems in line with the reports of the final mission being done as a one-man job and all other writers being excluded.

I'm not going to defend EA one bit, but it does seem to me like this mess is not the product of money-grabbing executives. It's what you get when two talented, but not brilliant writers reject all input to try and make "art" where they should be trying to satisfy customers, and wind up doing neither.