BioWare "Considering" Calls for New Mass Effect 3 Ending

[martyrdrebel27]

*spoilers*

I thought, nay prayed the ending wasn't as terrible as I heard it was.

Unfortunatly, it was. Instead of feeling triumphant, I was instead wondering what the fuck Bioware had been smoking, and how they could miss this bad.

I'm not demanding Shepard be on the beach with Liara in bikini's (though god knows that would be awesome!) but even if it was just Reapers/Shepard dead, but now civilizations can rebuild for the future would have been good.

Spoiler

Not some bullshit God-child pulled straight out their fucking arses.

What do you mean

Spoiler

godchild? It's a projection of an advanced AI, the projection is based on images from Shepards brain. And the Reapers can't be defeated conventionally. How were you to spread that kind of signal through the entire galaxy, if not through the mass relays? And civilization CAN rebuild for the future. As for space travel, finding a replacement for the mass relays will take a lot of time, but keep in mind, there is probably debris left that can, to some degree, be reverse engineered

but you're completely ignoring the biggest problem: GIANT PLOT HOLES!

SPOILERS!

when Shepard destroyed the Relay in Mass Effect 2's The Arrival, the explosion was so big that it took out the entire system it was in. If EVERY Relay were to blow up like that (as the endings show) then the entire galaxy would be destroyed.

you know what? just read this article and then try to defend the ending.

http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/

 

[Lord_Gremlin]

Thing about them artists... You either make your benefactors happy... Or you starve. STAAARVE!!!!

 

[Arkley]

I support the addition of new endings or the alteration of existing ones, but I wonder how much difference it's really going to make. Those who haven't yet played the game when new endings roll out might get to experience an ending worth seeing and a satisfying conclusion to gaming's first real epic. But the rest of us - we already saw the original endings, we already experienced that disappointment. Does Bioware really have a chance at making it all right now by slapping on a new cutscene and saying everything's better?

Imagine you've just eaten a delicious (and expensive) three course meal. You've paid the bill, and the waiter hands you what he insists is a slice of complimentary chocolate cake. After you take a bite, you discover it's actually a lump of human feces. The waiter then says "Just kidding!" and gives you a real slice of chocolate cake.

Sure, you have a real slice of chocolate cake now, but you already ate a mouthful of shit.

 

[Cartographer]

Have you considered that Bioware, knowing that after their 3-game contract is up they'll lose the IP to EA, who will happily contract out ME:4, ME:5, ME:World Cup Edition... wanted to make it virtually impossible to make another game; think "19 years later" but with better characters and more explosions.

 

[Doug]

I support the addition of new endings or the alteration of existing ones, but I wonder how much difference it's really going to make. Those who haven't yet played the game when new endings roll out might get to experience an ending worth seeing and a satisfying conclusion to gaming's first real epic. But the rest of us - we already saw the original endings, we already experienced that disappointment. Does Bioware really have a chance at making it all right now by slapping on a new cutscene and saying everything's better?

Imagine you've just eaten a delicious (and expensive) three course meal. You've paid the bill, and the waiter hands you what he insists is a slice of complimentary chocolate cake. After you take a bite, you discover it's actually a lump of human feces. The waiter then says "Just kidding!" and gives you a real slice of chocolate cake.

Sure, you have a real slice of chocolate cake now, but you already ate a mouthful of shit.

Indeedie - I have to admit, a new ending will have the problem of not feeling like the real ending, I think. Though it did work in Fallout 3, so maybe there is still hope.

 

[wench]

I'm down with the idea of open and productive communication with fans [although runaway incivility rarely seems far behind] but I still think the idea of demanding a new and "better" ending is ludicrous.

Please, explain why? As a customer it's Your duty to demand that the product You buy is of as good quality as it's advertised. If You pay for a 60$, so called "tripple A" title why should You be satisfied with something that doesn't meet Your expectations? When You buy a fancy TV that cost several thousand $ and find out that you can't change channels with a remote are You just accepting it is a "innovative, artistic expression"?
The game lacks an epilogue, an integral part of storytelling and writing. As customers we aren't slaves to companies and frankly if a company does something wrong we should yell about it, so next time they will think twice before making same mistake.

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

 

[Abedeus]

So... now Retake ME3 Child's Play charity is "absolutely fantastic", yet few days ago it was, quoting Jim Sterling, used to "offset the public bitching by raising some money (...) which fans are now cynically using to deflect criticism."

My guess is they're finally noticing something they should've noticed over the past 2 years - endings and the whole setup make absolutely no sense. Inconsistent, lackluster, anticlimactic.

I'm down with the idea of open and productive communication with fans [although runaway incivility rarely seems far behind] but I still think the idea of demanding a new and "better" ending is ludicrous.

Please, explain why? As a customer it's Your duty to demand that the product You buy is of as good quality as it's advertised. If You pay for a 60$, so called "tripple A" title why should You be satisfied with something that doesn't meet Your expectations? When You buy a fancy TV that cost several thousand $ and find out that you can't change channels with a remote are You just accepting it is a "innovative, artistic expression"?
The game lacks an epilogue, an integral part of storytelling and writing. As customers we aren't slaves to companies and frankly if a company does something wrong we should yell about it, so next time they will think twice before making same mistake.

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

Roleplaying games, where you are bombarded with CHOICES MATTER, THINK WISE AND MAKE GOOD DECISIONS, need promises delivered.

And you are really clueless about the ending.

1. No closure - what happens to geth and quarians, krogans and turians, all the colonies?
2. FTL still means years to travel, assuming no fuel problems.
3. If you think a devastated, bombarded Earth can sustain a whole Galactic Fleet of Krogans, Asari, Turians, Quarians (those two will die because of different biology), Geth, Batarians AND humans will survive more than a year before everyone begins eating everything and everyone else?
4. Space Magic makes 0 sense.

 

[Doug]

I'm down with the idea of open and productive communication with fans [although runaway incivility rarely seems far behind] but I still think the idea of demanding a new and "better" ending is ludicrous.

Please, explain why? As a customer it's Your duty to demand that the product You buy is of as good quality as it's advertised. If You pay for a 60$, so called "tripple A" title why should You be satisfied with something that doesn't meet Your expectations? When You buy a fancy TV that cost several thousand $ and find out that you can't change channels with a remote are You just accepting it is a "innovative, artistic expression"?
The game lacks an epilogue, an integral part of storytelling and writing. As customers we aren't slaves to companies and frankly if a company does something wrong we should yell about it, so next time they will think twice before making same mistake.

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Never stopped George Lucas 'fixing' his films, I have to say.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

Minor point - FTL does exist outside of the Mass Relays in the ME universe, BUT! it has an extreme limitation (for the known races at least), which is that ships can only go so far without discharging their hulls. In effect, nearly all ships are stuck to a small region on FTL as they can't go too far away from planets and stars. In effect, clusters at like islands with large oceans around them and the only ships available aren't ocean worthly.

Now, the Reapers are able to ignore this limitation, but none of the known races have matching technology.

As for the food, how do all those mining colonies survive? And the fleet around Earth had Quarian and Turian ships; both of these species are unable to consume the proteins of Earth life, and hence whilst I can buy that the other species might be able to survive being cut off from the rest of the Galaxy, and even that the Quarians still have their agricultural ships, I don't see how the Turian's in the fleet won't all starve to death.

 

[Cartographer]

I'm down with the idea of open and productive communication with fans [although runaway incivility rarely seems far behind] but I still think the idea of demanding a new and "better" ending is ludicrous.

Please, explain why? As a customer it's Your duty to demand that the product You buy is of as good quality as it's advertised. If You pay for a 60$, so called "tripple A" title why should You be satisfied with something that doesn't meet Your expectations? When You buy a fancy TV that cost several thousand $ and find out that you can't change channels with a remote are You just accepting it is a "innovative, artistic expression"?
The game lacks an epilogue, an integral part of storytelling and writing. As customers we aren't slaves to companies and frankly if a company does something wrong we should yell about it, so next time they will think twice before making same mistake.

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

While your points about the "mania" and lack of really "thinking it through" people have been displaying across the internet with regards what will happen next are quite valid, I'm sorry but you're just plain misinformed about your first point. Virtually every movie made has its ending changed in accordance to what test screening audiences say, so yes, companies do change the endings all the time. And not just due to test screenings, Infernal Affairs famously had its ending changed by the Chinese Government, who wouldn't accept the "bad guy wins" ending.
If they think it'll make them more money, they'll change the ending, or they'll add more and charge you for the privilege of playing it (and no doubt screw you on *that* ending too).

 

[Doug]

4. Space Magic makes 0 sense.

Which part was Space magic? I completely agree with the rest of your post but I'm abit confused on this one.

 

[Abedeus]

4. Space Magic makes 0 sense.

Which part was Space magic? I completely agree with the rest of your post but I'm abit confused on this one.

Green ending.

How the fuck does that even WORK. Robotic DNA? Synthetic DNA combined with DNA of every living being in the galaxy? You can't explain that with technobabble. That's the reason I loved Mass Effect - even shit like Biotics or kinetic barriers or Mass Relays can be explained with technobabble.

What the Crucible does in all endings, but Green one especially, is illogical and borderline insane.

 

[wench]

So... now Retake ME3 Child's Play charity is "absolutely fantastic", yet few days ago it was, quoting Jim Sterling, used to "offset the public bitching by raising some money (...) which fans are now cynically using to deflect criticism."

My guess is they're finally noticing something they should've noticed over the past 2 years - endings and the whole setup make absolutely no sense. Inconsistent, lackluster, anticlimactic.

I'm down with the idea of open and productive communication with fans [although runaway incivility rarely seems far behind] but I still think the idea of demanding a new and "better" ending is ludicrous.

Please, explain why? As a customer it's Your duty to demand that the product You buy is of as good quality as it's advertised. If You pay for a 60$, so called "tripple A" title why should You be satisfied with something that doesn't meet Your expectations? When You buy a fancy TV that cost several thousand $ and find out that you can't change channels with a remote are You just accepting it is a "innovative, artistic expression"?
The game lacks an epilogue, an integral part of storytelling and writing. As customers we aren't slaves to companies and frankly if a company does something wrong we should yell about it, so next time they will think twice before making same mistake.

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

Roleplaying games, where you are bombarded with CHOICES MATTER, THINK WISE AND MAKE GOOD DECISIONS, need promises delivered.

And you are really clueless about the ending.

1. No closure - what happens to geth and quarians, krogans and turians, all the colonies?
2. FTL still means years to travel, assuming no fuel problems.
3. If you think a devastated, bombarded Earth can sustain a whole Galactic Fleet of Krogans, Asari, Turians, Quarians (those two will die because of different biology), Geth, Batarians AND humans will survive more than a year before everyone begins eating everything and everyone else?
4. Space Magic makes 0 sense.

1. That depends on whether you killed off the Geth or synthesized them. If you didn't kill them, they continue to work together with the Quarians to develop Rannoch. They already have agricultural facilities set up before the final battle, so they're good.
2. Yes, and? Travel is not a requirement for life. This does likely mean that some mining facilities will not survive, which sucks, but is hardly world-shattering.
3. Turians and Quarians on Earth will die if there are no facilities for manufacturing dextro food. Their races on the home planets, however, will live. Levo folks will be fine - the reapers weren't razing the entire planet, primarily the cities would have been hit. They went where the highest concentrations of people were. There will be some hard times, but hardly an insurmountable problem - definitely not so bad that they all have to eat each other.
4. Huh?

I mean, come on, clueless? It's not like I haven't thought it through. I'm not clueless because I disagree with your take on the ending. It's ridiculous the number of posts/articles/etc. that have decided that anyone who doesn't hate the ending is some sort of moron. I've got well over 300 hours invested in these games - it's not a question of me liking the ending because I don't know enough about the universe or am some casual game player.

 

[Amaror]

It's cute that Bioware calls their fan base "Loyal" when they already have a lawsuit in the works.

Bioware is really good at offering player choice and then retroactively changing all your choices or just contriving some reason to make them not matter.

I'm firmly on the side of them needing to change the ending, because that was not wroth 150 hours of my life. (and it's actually way more because I have 7 Shepards)

But, more to the point, I don't particularly understand why people think the game deserved a happy ending.

Spoiler

Nobodys saying that. Nobody gives a crap that Sheppard dies. You know Metro 2033? The Book not the Game.
The Ending is really really sad and yet one of the best endings i read so far.
Why?
Because it fits! Everything is plausible. It fits into the general tone of the book, the major questions get answered and everything just FITS.
And thats the issue with ME 3. It doesn't fit, there is pretty much nothing leading up to that godchild. The Ending doesn't make sense, doesn't fit in the narrative of the rest of the game and is just outright bad.
People have to get, that we don't want a HAPPY Ending, we just want a GOOD one.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[Doug]

4. Space Magic makes 0 sense.

Which part was Space magic? I completely agree with the rest of your post but I'm abit confused on this one.

Green ending.

How the fuck does that even WORK. Robotic DNA? Synthetic DNA combined with DNA of every living being in the galaxy? You can't explain that with technobabble. That's the reason I loved Mass Effect - even shit like Biotics or kinetic barriers or Mass Relays can be explained with technobabble.

What the Crucible does in all endings, but Green one especially, is illogical and borderline insane.

Ah, yes - forgot about that one. Indeedie, if the Catalysis AI had access to that sort of technology, the Reapers seem a horribly inefficient way of achieving his 'solution'

 

[Abedeus]

So... now Retake ME3 Child's Play charity is "absolutely fantastic", yet few days ago it was, quoting Jim Sterling, used to "offset the public bitching by raising some money (...) which fans are now cynically using to deflect criticism."

My guess is they're finally noticing something they should've noticed over the past 2 years - endings and the whole setup make absolutely no sense. Inconsistent, lackluster, anticlimactic.

I'm down with the idea of open and productive communication with fans [although runaway incivility rarely seems far behind] but I still think the idea of demanding a new and "better" ending is ludicrous.

Please, explain why? As a customer it's Your duty to demand that the product You buy is of as good quality as it's advertised. If You pay for a 60$, so called "tripple A" title why should You be satisfied with something that doesn't meet Your expectations? When You buy a fancy TV that cost several thousand $ and find out that you can't change channels with a remote are You just accepting it is a "innovative, artistic expression"?
The game lacks an epilogue, an integral part of storytelling and writing. As customers we aren't slaves to companies and frankly if a company does something wrong we should yell about it, so next time they will think twice before making same mistake.

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

Roleplaying games, where you are bombarded with CHOICES MATTER, THINK WISE AND MAKE GOOD DECISIONS, need promises delivered.

And you are really clueless about the ending.

1. No closure - what happens to geth and quarians, krogans and turians, all the colonies?
2. FTL still means years to travel, assuming no fuel problems.
3. If you think a devastated, bombarded Earth can sustain a whole Galactic Fleet of Krogans, Asari, Turians, Quarians (those two will die because of different biology), Geth, Batarians AND humans will survive more than a year before everyone begins eating everything and everyone else?
4. Space Magic makes 0 sense.

1. That depends on whether you killed off the Geth or synthesized them. If you didn't kill them, they continue to work together with the Quarians to develop Rannoch. They already have agricultural facilities set up before the final battle, so they're good.
2. Yes, and? Travel is not a requirement for life. This does likely mean that some mining facilities will not survive, which sucks, but is hardly world-shattering.
3. Turians and Quarians on Earth will die if there are no facilities for manufacturing dextro food. Their races on the home planets, however, will live. Levo folks will be fine - the reapers weren't razing the entire planet, primarily the cities would have been hit. They went where the highest concentrations of people were. There will be some hard times, but hardly an insurmountable problem - definitely not so bad that they all have to eat each other.
4. Huh?

I mean, come on, clueless? It's not like I haven't thought it through. I'm not clueless because I disagree with your take on the ending. It's ridiculous the number of posts/articles/etc. that have decided that anyone who doesn't hate the ending is some sort of moron. I've got well over 300 hours invested in these games - it's not a question of me liking the ending because I don't know enough about the universe or am some casual game player.

300 hours invested and you are satisfied with "Yo dawg, I herd you don't like being killed by synthetics, so we made some synthetics to kill you every 50k years so you won't get killed by other synthetics"?

 

[chstens]

*spoilers*

I thought, nay prayed the ending wasn't as terrible as I heard it was.

Unfortunatly, it was. Instead of feeling triumphant, I was instead wondering what the fuck Bioware had been smoking, and how they could miss this bad.

I'm not demanding Shepard be on the beach with Liara in bikini's (though god knows that would be awesome!) but even if it was just Reapers/Shepard dead, but now civilizations can rebuild for the future would have been good.

Spoiler

Not some bullshit God-child pulled straight out their fucking arses.

What do you mean

Spoiler

godchild? It's a projection of an advanced AI, the projection is based on images from Shepards brain. And the Reapers can't be defeated conventionally. How were you to spread that kind of signal through the entire galaxy, if not through the mass relays? And civilization CAN rebuild for the future. As for space travel, finding a replacement for the mass relays will take a lot of time, but keep in mind, there is probably debris left that can, to some degree, be reverse engineered

but you're completely ignoring the biggest problem: GIANT PLOT HOLES!

Spoiler

when Shepard destroyed the Relay in Mass Effect 2's The Arrival, the explosion was so big that it took out the entire system it was in. If EVERY Relay were to blow up like that (as the endings show) then the entire galaxy would be destroyed.

you know what? just read this article and then try to defend the ending.

http://www.gamefront.com/mass-effect-3-ending-hatred-5-reasons-the-fans-are-right/

And in Star Wars why the hell didn't the Death Star just blow up Yavin to get a clear shot at the rebel base? And in Lord of the Rings, why didn't they just fly to Mt. Doom on giant eagles? And in most horror movies, why don't they just fucking call someone and leave?
Nothing the precogs in Minority Report predicts happens, why don't Luke, or anyone that can use the force, just turn off their combatants lightsaber? Talking about Luke, according to Empire Strikes Back, he apperantly finished his jedi training (which is supposed to take years) in just a few hours, based on how the scenes are put together. Also "the fans" are a bunch of loud, annoying, entitled crybabies.

My point is, plot holes happens, and usually, the angry, frothing crazies of the bunch just go off to write their own ending, in the shape of fanfic. The whole "retake Mass Effect" shit is plain stupid.

 

[Doug]

300 hours invested and you are satisfied with "Yo dawg, I herd you don't like being killed by synthetics, so we made some synthetics to kill you every 50k years so you won't get killed by other synthetics"?

I do think that they badly explained at least that - its more 'organic life gets wiped out by synthetic life every so often, so we'll preserve all organic life by converting them into Reapers. There minds and essences will be preserved inside the near-unbreakable hulls!'. Which admittedly is still abit insane but at least has some logical structure to it.

 

[Keava]

If you go see a movie, and don't like the ending, do they change the ending? Do they give you your money back? What if you buy a Blu-Ray? No. They don't. Feel free not to be satisfied, but that doesn't mean the company should change it for you. It's nothing like a non-functional remote - the game works just fine, and there are a lot of people who played it and aren't up in arms about the end.

Yes, I liked the ending. I thought it was appropriate. I also think people are clueless about how integrated the galaxy was - it would be insanely inefficient to use the mass relays to ship food back and forth. That's leaving aside the fact that FTL still exists - luxury goods will be more expensive, but they're not going to vanish. Do people seriously think that Earth will starve without the mass relays? The reapers harvested people - there have still got to be massive areas of Canada and Russia left untouched, as well as the oceans.

And how easy it is to add a new feature/ending to a film compared with videogame? You can't have same standards for different mediums. You don't judge books based on actor performance or camera work, nor film based on description of environments. Game is not a movie. That's one.

Two. If I saw a movie that had obvious flaws in terms of craftsmanship then I would complain, especially if it's advertising would contain words like "masterpiece of cinematography". If the script was junk to the point it affected the whole movie I would complain.

Also, movies have pretty established and respected critics group, whose opinions are in many cases actually relevant. Gaming is too young for that and gaming journalism seriously lacks integrity to really be able to form any sort of opinion.

All the time you get to hear people complaining how quality of games sucks, how games get less immersive/impressive, how everything is just repeating the same crap over and over. You know why it happens? Because people enable it, by not being vocal about their issues with given title. We need to demand standards. If the studio demands a higher price it would be pretty clear that the product should also be of higher quality.

In case of ME3 ending it's a lacking feature, that's what I see. I'm not even concerned about such details as to how viable the interstellar travel is with just FTLs. I want to know how the final decision affects the world. What is actual difference between blue, green and red. I want to see how my interaction with crew over 3 games shaped them. What Wrex, Garrus, Liara and rest of them do when They realize Shep is no more, how They react to it, and what They do with their lives after the threat of Reapers is gone.
Through all the Mass Effect series the game wanted the player to care about those characters, yet They really only managed to offer conclusion for some of them, mid game, depending on choices (Mordin, Legion, possibly Tali). Why not reward players who kept alive as many of them as possible with any sort of explanation? In the end, nothing You done in a medium that's supposed to be about interactive storytelling matters, because all you get is different colour variation on explosion. Nothing more.

However, as I said, BioWare has every right to ignore the "crying" and just go along throwing out more multiplayer DLC. It's their choice. But by doing so they send me clear signal they stopped caring about telling a story and I see no reason to further support them. Sadly most people, even among those complaining now, will forget about it when new game comes out. That's why we can't have nice things anymore. I used to value BioWare, not so much anymore, especially with most of the "old team" leaving the studio. Same happened with Blizzard at some point.