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(Reedited for Jecht342)

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http://social.biowar.../index/10318782 

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"Casey Hudson said that we were just mad because the ending wasn't happy enough.  Then the media picked this up, because there is no leadership on our side to speak to, and all of the ME loyalists are parroting this and saying we are just mad because Shepard died.  It is disrespectful and wrong. 

I loved almost all of ME3.  Going into the end I really thought that it was the best game in the series and even the best game I've ever played.  I was expecting something bittersweet and was even thinking that Shep's death was likely.  That didn't bother me.  For the most part, that's not what bothered any of the people in the movement to change the ending.  (I will admit that it may be the motivation behind the people who keep going on about having blue babies, but not the rest of us.) 

We are mad because we feel that it didn't make any sense (both with the plot holes and the overall concept of the ending), that the endings weren't different as we were told they would be, and that it completely devalued and even invalidated the whole basis of the series, which is that the players choices matter.  

Even the people who liked the ending must admit that it left a lot unclear and there were gaping inconsistancies.  How did the team get off the planet and onto the Normandy so quickly and why did they do it?  Why is the Normandy leaving the system in the first place?  It was established in The Arrival that the destruction of a mass relay would destroy a star system.  All of them were destroyed.  Since all of the major planets are in systems with a mass relay, this leads us to believe that nearly everyone in the galaxy is dead, but they don't bother to let us know if they are.  

As for the concept behind the Reapers, that makes very little sense to me, but I could accept it if it was hinted at during the series at all.  You actually get to speak to the Reapers a few times throughout the games and they could have dropped subtle hints that would have prepared us for what happened.  
Soveriegn's speech in ME1 directly contradicts the ending.  They are saying that Reapers are a way to protect organic life from synthetic life through destruction.  Sovereign was disdainful of organic life and represented the synthetic life and their desire to destroy. 

When I got to the ending, I was angry, because I had to accept one of  three options that all seemed bad to me, but I was more angry because accepting the confines of the choice seems to be accepting the premise that synthetics and organics can never have peace, as the boy AI says, and that goes directly what  I've been working on in ME3.  
Why did I create peace between the Geth  and the Quarians if I was going to just give in to the idea that they 
can't have peace?  It completely invalidated what I had worked for.
  

As for the difference between the endings, it isn't just the fact that they use almost all of the same video, it's also that they are functionally identical.  All three of them destroy all of the mass relays, destroying all of galactic civilization.  Even if the relays didn't kill nearly everyone when they blew up, there is no way to have a galactic civilization now that everyone is decades apart.  No matter what happens, the Turian and Quarian fleets above earth are going to die, since they can't eat our food. 

I'll admit that I am quite mad about the fact that there can't really be a game after this because of they ended galactic civilization, but I'm more angry that there wasn't an option to avoid it.   

Lastly, let me point out that the entire basis for the ME series has been player choice.  We were all getting ready for the Reapers, and the choices you made 5 years ago when ME1 came out were going to affect this game.  Well, they affected the game, but not how it ended.  None of your choices matter in the end, except in that your EMS affects which endings you can do.  I can't imagine how no one realize that was going to anger the fans.  Even if you believe that the endings were significantly different, you have to realize that three endings that aren't actually affected by our choices goes against everything Mass Effect has been up to that point.  

BioWare has spent three games telling us that all of our choices matter.  One thing people are saying is that we're mad because they threw in a twist at the end.  Well they did.  At the eleventh hour they told us that none of our choices mattered. "