User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-4950455-20120621015637/@comment-4950455-20120714090552

I mean that it makes it sound like they made a mistake. I don't think it was in either sense - it certainly wasn't unintended, and I don't really think it was a bad thing either (though the same can't be said of the endings proper).

And I really don't have the time to enumerate all the reasons why that's not a "cliffhanger", although chief among them is that it's only in one of three possible endings.