The fans aren't asking that BioWare give them something that BioWare said they would not get.
The fans are asking that BioWare give them something that BioWare said they WOULD get.
Imagine I sold you a Ferrari. It was nice. I gave you the keys and stated, "I promise you'll love this car, and it will last 30 years." So you're driving down an open highway, your partner handfeeding you chocolate and winking cheekily, you're thinking, hey, life could NOT be better, I'm loving every minute of this! And then . . .
*Bam*! The car's engine expodes! You're sitting in a burning hulk! Your trousers have been blown off, your partner is crying and the chocolates are gone. You crawl to the side of the road and wait for an ambulance.
In hospital, you call me, the car dealer.
“Hello, is this the guy that sold me that Ferrari?” you ask.
“Yes, it is. Drives great, right?”
“It blew up. I’m not happy.”
“Blew up? Yeah, that’s probably because of the bomb I put in the engine.”
“Why would you DO that?”
“Well, things always change in development. What was your favourite part of driving the car?”
Really, if BioWare had said, BEFORE launch, "We must be honest, things changed so the endings you get might be much less choice than you might have expected, however throughout the game you see the effect of earlier choices, feel free to buy or not"- then we'd be fine.
But no. Up to an INCLUDING launch day, they stuck by their statements that "It’s not even in any way like the traditional game endings,
where you can say how many endings there are or whether you got
ending A, B, or C....."
Then were surprised at our anger at being lied to.