darkrogueninja wrote...
2. I don't have an exact date, but the original "dark energy" ending was leaked on Youtube before launch, forcing Bioware to rewrite it.
This is absolutely false.
There never was a "dark energy" ending. It was something that was considered near the end of ME2, but it was ultimately shelved. There is no evidence that any work was ever put into this ending (beyond the seeds of it that were in ME2), and all evidence suggests that the current ending was decided upon before development of ME3 began.
The only leak was a beta build that Microsoft accidentally made available. The current ending is nearly identical to the leaked version, and the leak also contained older developer notes (from much earlier—this is where knowledge of all of the cut plots and other content comes from), which also had practically the same ending.
The ending was not changed because of any leak.