User blog comment:Kaloneous/Mass Effect 3 Ending DLC Denied and PAX/@comment-1786741-20120328043334/@comment-4933332-20120329121712

The commissioner of the work isn't the fans. THe commisioner of the work is EA. who paid for the development of the game.

Bioware didn't sign a contract with the fans and got the fans to pay them money for them to develop the game according to the their specification. It was EA and Bioware wrote the game within the limitation set by EA.

Now I support the change in ending because I believe the artist should be able to do what they want with their art work and that includes changing it if they wanted to.

The way I see it, the artist writes a work according their own vision or the vision of the commissioner (in this case EA) and the public decides with their own wallet whether to accept their art or not.

In terms of false advertisement, sometimes can be a legitimate artistic statement. I mean I didn't expect Million dollar baby to suddenly switch and become a euthanasia movie or Dusk to dawn to turn into a vampire slasher movie out of nowhere. I'm quite sure there are plenty of examples of story telling where something suddenly change theme. MAss Effect 3 made an artistic statement of baiting the players that choice matters until pulling the rug at the end leaving lots of players dissatisfied (myself included). Nevertheless that's a legitimate artistic statement though that we like to believe we have choice when in fact we don't, I personally think it was done poorly but I'm not going to say they don't have the right to do that.

I believe that fans should post constructive criticism of the ending and how it could be improved and hope that bioware reads it and reflects on the criticism and hopefully inspire them to put their heart and soul into fixing the ending.

Nevertheless, a change in ending should only occur if Bioware feels the ending needs to be change rather than them trying to appease the fan base. We should try and persuade Bioware to change the ending and try to convince them that the work will improve because of the change but I don't believe we should try and used a sense of obligation that they should do what the fans want.