User blog comment:Awayorafk/Believe. The Indoctrination Theory./@comment-159.253.112.16-20151013193640

IMHO, the theory does not make sense from a pure game design point of view:

When you are really bad in the game (low EMS) the only option is destroy (unless you are so bad that you actually cannot win...). That means, the worse you are in the game the higher the likelyhood of getting the "only reasonable" ending.

That fact alone contradicts any reasonable game design. To keep players motivated, you need to reward them for achievements. Otherwise, if a human does not get a reward for his/her efforts, he/she will simply stop doing what he/she was doing. So if the IT was true, the reward for being good in the game would be to get f*cked up at the end. And that would certainly get people to not play ME4. At least I would not play it, if good gaming leads to being messed with in the end.