User blog comment:The Milkman/No Love For Leviathan?/@comment-5038903-20120916134142/@comment-4237253-20120918052933

1. Wrong. Again, you assume that every single criticism is just people "ignoring" something, or whining because they didn't get what they want. That's your problem. You see a small bad apples, and you assume they're all like that. The ending is bad. Not because "I didn't get what I want", but because it's poorly written. All you've done is simply hand wave and ignore every single criticism about BioWare. You cannot simply ignore all of it.

2. No, not always. Fallout 3's ending was criticised, not because it's story was bad (it was actually quite good) but because they couldn't play as their character afterward and do side quests. Were a lot of people disappointed? Yes, but for the wrong reasons. There was however, a truth behind it. People were upset because they weren't told before hand, which led to some not being able to reload their saves after. In the sequel, you cannot continue after the main campaign (thankfully), but you are warned before crossing the Rubicon.

What I'm getting at is, that whilst a lot of disappointment is not necessarily an indicator of poor quality, it most often is. Considering that a much larger group of people (and no, they're not all whiny entitled brats like you overgeneralise them to be) has criticised the ending for a plethora of reasons, something is clearly wrong. If there wasn't legitimate cause for concern, this many people would not be upset. Thousands of dollars would not have been raised, and tens of thousands would not be telling BioWare how badly they screwed up their own story. Is every criticism correct? No. However, you can't simply handwave and utterly ignore every single criticism, especially the ones made by the more intelligent people. You cannot overgeneralise tens of thousands of people, then ignore every point they make. So yes, I did realise that. Your condescension is not appreciated. 3. I'm not even going to list examples here. I've written a blog on it, and you cannot say that everything was justified. BioWare either lied, or was ignorant about its own product. Don't pretend like everything I just said is made up. The video does a better job of compiling the quotes. As Aleks said, just watch the videos. You cannot say that hours upon hours of footage of nothing but criticism is all lies and ignoring facts. I'm sorry, but that's far too extreme.


 * Mass Effect 3: Bookends of Destruction Part 5


 * ME3: Extended Cut Analysis


 * Mass Effect 3 Ending: Tasteful, Understated Nerdrage (SPOILERS)

You cannot deny every point raised in every single one of those videos. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. That's two people, and only a small fragment of all the complaints made by them. You may notice that they are not lying, ignoring facts, or getting upset because they didn't get what they wanted. They're objectively criticising the ending.